Comment # 25 on bug 860778 from Tony Jones

This isn't an audit bug,  I've not no idea how his system got into this state
and what is changing his (In reply to Tony Jones from comment #24)
> (In reply to Felix Miata from comment #23)
> 
> > But, it doesn't survive rebooting.
> 
> I realize that.  I have no idea what on your system is setting the current
> log level to 7.  It's not audit.  I realize this doesn't help you.  If I
> were able to reproduce I could figure out what is doing this, but I cannot.

Sorry, the above was unclear. 

7 is the boot time default.  On my systems, as I stated,  rsyslog changes it to
1 but if I run 'systemctl disable rsyslog' then at next boot the loglevel is 4. 

I suspect this is because I'm booting with cmdline option "quiet" and you are
not.

If this is correct, as root, add "quiet" (or "loglevel=4") to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub and run grub2-mkconfig >
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg [or yast equivalent] and reboot.

Or install and enable rsyslog,  or install and enable audit.