Bug 2375403

Summary: spacenavd logs should be redirected to the systemd journal instead of syslog
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Wren Turkal <wt>
Component: spacenavdAssignee: Richard Shaw <hobbes1069>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: davide, hobbes1069
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A diff for rawhide branch in the repo at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/spacenavd.git none

Description Wren Turkal 2025-06-29 08:51:22 UTC 
The spacenavd daemon log messages end up getting added to /var/log/messages instead of going to the systemd journal for the spacenavd.service unit.

The configuration in the service unit file contains this line:

> [Service]
> ...
> StandardError=syslog


The stderr logs should probably be redirected to the journal. In order to do this, I added a local service unit for spacenavd whose contents are as follows:


> [Unit]
> After=
> 
> [Service]
> Type=
> Type=exec
> ExecStart=
> ExecStart=/usr/bin/spacenavd -d -l /dev/stdout
> StandardOutput=
> StandardError=

As you can see, I removed the dep on syslog as well as redirecting the logs to stdout so that they can be captured by the journal. I think this is probably a better config in a systemd world.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start spacenavd.service unit
Actual Results:
Log messages go to /var/log/messages via syslog

Expected Results:
Log messages land in the systemd journal
Comment 1 Wren Turkal 2025-06-29 08:54:15 UTC 
Created attachment 2095627 [details]
A diff for rawhide branch in the repo at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/spacenavd.git
Comment 2 Wren Turkal 2025-06-29 09:27:41 UTC 
And updated local service unit to get rid of all the warnings that system was giving that I just noticed:

> # /etc/systemd/system/spacenavd.service.d/override.conf
> [Unit]
> After=
> 
> [Service]
> Type=exec
> PIDFile=/run/spnavd.pid
> ExecStart=
> ExecStart=/usr/bin/spacenavd -d -l /dev/stdout
> StandardError=journal

The previously attached diff is in line with the local override.
Comment 3 Davide Cavalca 2025-07-13 14:31:12 UTC 
Put up https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/spacenavd/pull-request/1 for this
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2025-07-13 18:38:25 UTC 
FEDORA-2025-bbf9786307 (spacenavd-1.3.1-1.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-bbf9786307
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2025-07-13 18:41:46 UTC 
FEDORA-2025-bbf9786307 (spacenavd-1.3.1-1.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.