[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#718038: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

[Josh Triplett]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:34:18AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Hi Joey,
> 
> On 20.01.2014 16:28, Joey Hess wrote:
> >Josh Triplett wrote:
> >>If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that
> >>the default kernel command line includes "quiet", which hides most
> >>kernel messages and systemd messages.
> >
> >Note that the hiding of systemd messages is unintentional, and can make
> >debugging a system that fails to boot challanging. #718038
> >
> >I asked the systemd maintainers to not make it overload quiet to do
> >that, but they don't want to, so if systemd continues being used in
> >Debian (even if not as default), d-i will need to start adding
> >systemd.show_status=1 to the kernel command line.
> 
> I just noticed, that when using plymouth and pressing <Esc> to see
> the boot messeges, the systemd messages are shown (in spite of the
> 'quiet' boot option), but without plymouth they are not shown.
> This is weird...

systemd has some integration with plymouth; perhaps you've run into some
aspect of that integration.

- Josh Triplett