It appears that this behaviour is as expected. It is entirly reasonable to want to trigger a sysrq and read it from the dmesg/syslog without spamming the console.
The documentation is below par here, so I have pushed up some documentation updates to mainline to make this more obvious. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: In Progress => Invalid -- SysRq output not going to the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314681 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs