Bug 702980

Summary: systemd starts gpm in debug mode, spamming syslog
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tomáš Trnka <tomastrnka>
Component: gpmAssignee: Nikola Pajkovsky <npajkovs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: dhoward, johannbg, lpoetter, metherid, mschmidt, notting, npajkovs, pertusus, plautrba
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Description Tomáš Trnka 2011-05-08 19:31:33 UTC 
Description of problem:
After installing systemd on F14, syslog is flooded by hundreds of gpm debug messages like:

May  8 20:33:02 Bellatrix gpm[1253]: *** debug [daemon/selection_copy.c(51)]: ctl 0, mode 3
May  8 20:33:02 Bellatrix gpm[1253]: *** debug [daemon/old_main.c(158)]: selected 1 times
May  8 20:33:02 Bellatrix gpm[1253]: *** debug [daemon/getmousedata.c(88)]: Data 08 06 02 (00)
May  8 20:33:02 Bellatrix gpm[1253]: *** debug [daemon/processmouse.c(270)]: dx:   1 dy:   0 x:  57 y:  33 butt: 0 vc: 12 clicks: 0

Apparently, the gpm.service unit file passes the '-D' argument to gpm (probably to prevent it from forking off), forcing it into debug mode and making it log every mouse movement.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-10-2.fc14.1.x86_64
gpm-1.20.6-11.fc14.x86_64
Comment 1 Tomáš Trnka 2011-05-08 19:47:59 UTC 
Created attachment 497675 [details]
proposed fix
Comment 2 Michal Schmidt 2011-05-09 09:17:08 UTC 
The gpm man page says:

   -D     Do  not  automatically  enter background operation when started,
          and log messages to the standard error stream,  not  the  syslog
          mechanism.   This  is useful for debugging; in previous releases
          it was done with a compile-time option.

Note that it does not mention anything about the increased verbosity of the messages.

It is unfortunate if gpm has no separate option to disable forking without increasing the verbosity. It would be nice to have.

Anyway, the unit file is shipped by the gpm package itself, not systemd. Reassigning.
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