[systemd-devel] systemd-fsck question

[Chris Murphy]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Nikolai Zhubr <n-a-zhubr at yandex.ru> wrote:
> Hi,
> 07.01.2015 0:59, me wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> Could someone please explain, what "StandardOutput=journal+console" is
>> supposed to do? Actully, it is not documented, just briefly mentioned in
>> documentation. Intuitively it would seem exactly what I want, and it is
>> even the default setting. Looking at the source, it's not completely
>> obvious to me though. Anyway, forwarding of standard output from
>> system-fsck to console does not seem to work. Maybe I'm doing something
>> very silly, or maybe there is some suse-specific breakage?
>
>
> Some update. I've learned that in case of "StandardOutput=journal+console"
> everything is still piped to journald rightaway, so systemd does not mirror
> to console by itself. From looking into the code, journald simply mirrors
> messages to console if instructed to do so, by either "+console" per
> service, or ForwardToConsole=yes globally.
> So I've also added (to my /etc/systemd/journald.conf):
>
> ForwardToConsole=yes
> TTYPath=/dev/console
> MaxLevelConsole=debug
>
> Still no effect... Well, I do see some more messages, but still nothing from
> systemd-fsck! I'm really puzzled...
> (And yes, I do remember to re-run mkinitrd every time I change journald.conf
> and friends)

These are all really good questions, and it makes me wonder about the
handling when long or failed fsck presents on systems with GUI boot
e.g. plymouth on Fedora. That's a tangent topic from your concern but
seems like there'd need to be a way for systemd to communicate with
the GUI startup process.

-- 
Chris Murphy