Bug#902795: systemd fills kmsg and console with rubbish

[Peter 'p2' De Schrijver]

On 2018-07-01 20:48:01 (+0200), Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Am 01.07.2018 um 01:49 schrieb Peter De Schrijver:
> > Package: systemd
> > Version: 239-3
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > 
> > systemd fills kmsg and console with:
> > 
> > [  102.676667] systemd-journald[360]: Sent WATCHDOG=1 notification.
> > [  102.683373] systemd-journald[360]: Journal effective settings seal=no compress=yes compress_threshold_bytes=512B
> 
> This is a debug log message [1]. Please check if you have debug logging
> enabled.
> Most likely you have added "debug" to the kernel command line.
> 
> If you turn off debug logging, those log messages should go away.
> 

However, this doesn't mean systemd should spam the console log to the
point where it becomes unusable for any other purpose. There should be
flags to limit the amount of console output, even when in debug mode.

Peter.