The core of the issue is that systemd looks at kernel boot command line and if it sees "debug" there, it starts logging so much diagnostics, it floods the syste

The core of the issue is that systemd looks at kernel boot command line and if it sees "debug" there, it starts logging so much diagnostics, it floods the system and prevents it from completing the boot. Someone then opened a bug [0] with systemd devs and the ticket was closed by this Kay person in two hours with "not a bug". In a exchange that followed Kay said "debug" is a generic term, there's nothing to fix, ignoring the fact that his treatment of "debug" was breaking existing systems that admins with booting with kernel debug On. This is a major if not the major f#ckup in Linus world, who is really big on not breaking backward compatibility, ever. Now multiply it on Kay's not-my-problem attitude and you can guess Linus reaction without reading his lkml post. [0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935