There are a few daemons startup script use following shell functions from /lib/lsb/init-functions to print out logs: log_begin_msg log_end_msg Code in log_begin_msg () { /etc/core-lsb/lsb_log_message begin "$@" } log_end_msg () { /etc/core-lsb/lsb_log_message end "$@" } While the /etc/core-lsb/lsb_log_message doesn't handle the "begin" and "end" parameters which results nothing has been printed. It's from the lsb package in oe-core. (layers/oe-core/meta/recipes-extended/lsb) In the upstream oe-core latest version, the issue has been addressed. Details @ http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb/init-functions?id=ebfd07544751611c7ac03e6b1e7a79676ffa0873 Please pull the upstream changes whenever it's proper so we can have our log prints back.