[Bug 1682484] Re: systemd: Logging from gnome session is passed on to all syslog facilities

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This bug was fixed in the package systemd - 232-21ubuntu3

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systemd (232-21ubuntu3) zesty; urgency=medium

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * resolved: Disable DNSSEC by default on stretch and zesty.
    Both Debian stretch and Ubuntu zesty are close to releasing, switch to
    DNSSEC=off by default for those. Users can still turn it back on with
    DNSSEC=allow-downgrade (or even "yes"). (LP: #1682499)

  [ Michael Biebl ]
  * journal: fix up syslog facility when forwarding native messages.
    Native journal messages (_TRANSPORT=journal) typically don't have a
    syslog facility attached to it. As a result when forwarding the
    messages to syslog they ended up with facility 0 (LOG_KERN).
    Apply syslog_fixup_facility() so we use LOG_USER instead. (Closes: #837893)
    (LP: #1682484)

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * networkd: cherry-pick support for setting bridge port's priority.
    This is a useful feature/bugfix to improve feature parity of networkd with
    ifupdown. This matches netplan's expectations to be able to set bridge port's
    priorities via networked. This featue is to be used by netplan/MAAS/OpenStack.
    (LP: #1668347)
  * TEST-12: cherry-pick upstream fix for compat with new netcat-openbsd.
    (LP: #1672542)
  * udev.postinst: preserve virtio interfaces names on upgrades, on s390x.
    New udev generates stable interface names on s390x kvm instances, however, upon
    upgrades existing ethX names should be preserved to prevent breaking networking
    and software configurations. (Closes: #860246) (LP: #1682437)

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox at ubuntu.com>  Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:10:33
+0100

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Zesty)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  systemd: Logging from gnome session is passed on to all syslog
  facilities

Status in systemd:
  Unknown
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in systemd source package in Zesty:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * untagged messages in journal do not have any syslog facility specified, this may result in spamming logs.
   * The solution is to cherrypick upstream fix which sanity checks and provides default syslog facility, e.g. it sets user facility on user/desktop session syslog/journal entries.

  [Test Case]

   * launch gnome terminal
   * check output of $ journalctl -o verbose -e
   * entries from gnome-terminal (e.g. "Allocating size to GtkBox without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height()....") should have a syslog facility listed as one of the variables.

  
  [Regression Potential] 

   * We are changing (fixing regression) in logging, thus release images
  have those messages untagged, and may require different filtering
  rules before this update is applied.

  [Other Info]
   
   * Original bug report from debian.

  Bug imported from Debian https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
  bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837893

  Package: systemd
  Version: 231-6
  Severity: normal

  Since recently, log messages from programs running under the gnome
  session have started appearing in all logs in /var/logs, including
  /var/logs/kern.log, even though my rsyslog configuration has not
  changed, and correctly only routes kern.* there.

  This is very annoying since it fills the logs with messages that don't
  belong there, and makes running logcheck tedious.

  It seems this is a recent regression, since before I was able to route
  these messages to a low-priority log using the following rsyslog
  configuration:

    user.=info;user.=notice;\
            user.=warn              -/var/log/user-low.log

  If I look at the messages directly with journalctl -o verbose, it seems
  they do not set the syslog facility, which should make them end up with
  user facility, but doesn't.

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