Comment # 8 on bug 1175850 from Andrei Borzenkov

(In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #7)
> So it seems like systemd-journald.service doesn't reach stopped for some
> reason.

We do not really know it if journald stopped writing into /var. To capture what
happens after that serial or net console is needed together with
systemd.log_target=console.