Another rant

[Tom H]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>
> After a power outage I think the lvm cache was in a bad state, did not
> repair itself, and caused trouble.
>
> But I'm not sure.
>
> I couldn't troubleshoot it because I couldn't sudo.
>
> But because I don't have time for that I'm back in Windows.
>
> I went into the rescue environment of kernel 4.8.
>
> You get this nice blue menu that look really good.
>
> But rather after systemd messages start washing across the screen.
>
> They are gone for a while and you can enter a shell and think about
> what to do.
>
> Then the systemd messages return and the entire system hangs with a
> tty overflow message somewhere on the screen.
>
> That is supposed to be the "rescue" environment,
>
> from which most of the time you need to be rescued *from*.

Do you have this problem is you set
"systemd.journald.max_level_console=0" and/or
"systemd.journald.max_level_wall=0" on the cmdline? (Or
"systemd.journald.forward_to_console=0" and/or
"systemd.journald.forward_to_wall=0".)