http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1089551 Bug ID: 1089551 Summary: special characters in bootup log (on screen) shown as e.g. \x2d Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 42.3 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem Assignee: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: abittner@opensuse.org QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- fresh leap 42.3 freshly installed from scratch booting up, when pressing esc on the suse logo animation, it reverts back to displaying technical loglines about services and various stuff. At the kind of the beginning of the many log messages and service statuses displayed, there is this log line being shown on screen: Created slice system-systemd\x2dfsck.slice I can not find this in journalctl -b nor in dmesg -e but the part "\x2d" doesnt seem right and I have found some bugreport about it with redhat https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313473 Bug 1313473 - dashes are unicode \x2d in systemd warning message in journal but they (systemd? upstream?) claim it wasnt a bug? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.