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Description of problem:
When starting a system with spice-vdagent installed, the following message is visible in console:

...
[  OK  ] Stopped File System Check on Root Device.
         Stopping File System Check on Root Device...
         Starting Remount Root and Kernel File Systems...
[ INFO ] dev-virtio\x2dports-com.redhat.spice.0.device is not active.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Activation socket for spice guest agent daemon.
[  OK  ] Created slice system-selinux\x2dpol...grate\x2dlocal\x2dchanges.slice.
         Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
...

The message is also visible at the beginning of a RHEL-7.5 installation.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
spice-vdagent-0.14.0-15.el7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install spice-vdagent
2. restart the system

Actual results:
INFO/DEPEND messages in console

Expected results:
Probably no INFO/DEPEND log messages with dependency failures in console, since it looks suspicious

Is this a Virtual Machine or a bare metal one?

For the virtual machine case, this is a valid log message as expected Spice features wouldn't work without the virtio device.

I don't think we expect users to install spice-vdagent in bare metal machines. Same goes to qemu-guest-agent and so on.

Not a blocker for 7.5, moving to 7.6

*** Bug 1576979 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

FYI, this happens when booting the 7.6 rescue shell:

      [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Activation socket for spice guest agent daemon.
      [ INFO ] dev-virtio\x2dports-com.redhat.spice.0.device is not active.
      [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Activation socket for spice guest agent daemon.

Should be fixed by https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2018-December/046496.html

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2229