Ah, understood. I was misled as your userdata explicitly sends output to /dev/console (or whatever you configured). This can be done with Standard{Output,Error}=journal+console.
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1468102 Title: rc.local output does not go to console Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: provided is user-data that should write: [stdout] Tue, 23 Jun 2015 20:17:52 +0000 ====== successfull boot 1 ======= to the console on the first boot. currently in wily, rc.local's output is not being written to the console, so you wont see this. Note, that because of bug 1468103, you wont see it on first boot. If this bug were fixed then you'd see it on reboots. Related bugs: * bug 1468103: rc.local runs too early. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: systemd 220-7ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.19.0-22.22-generic 3.19.8-ckt1 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-22-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.17.3-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jun 23 20:26:30 2015 Ec2AMI: ami-00000434 Ec2AMIManifest: FIXME Ec2AvailabilityZone: nova Ec2InstanceType: m1.small Ec2Kernel: aki-00000002 Ec2Ramdisk: ari-00000002 Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub MachineType: OpenStack Foundation OpenStack Nova ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-22-generic root=LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs ro console=tty1 console=ttyS0 SourcePackage: systemd UdevLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/udev' UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 01/01/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Bochs dmi.bios.version: Bochs dmi.chassis.type: 1 dmi.chassis.vendor: Bochs dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnBochs:bvrBochs:bd01/01/2011:svnOpenStackFoundation:pnOpenStackNova:pvr2014.1.4:cvnBochs:ct1:cvr: dmi.product.name: OpenStack Nova dmi.product.version: 2014.1.4 dmi.sys.vendor: OpenStack Foundation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1468102/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp