Description of problem: Everything that dbus-daemon logs reaches the syslog in duplicate. An example from my /var/log/messages: Dec 16 02:42:20 alice dbus[1552]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Dec 16 02:42:20 alice dbus-daemon[1552]: dbus[1552]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Dec 16 02:42:21 alice dbus[1552]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Dec 16 02:42:21 alice dbus-daemon[1552]: dbus[1552]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' It is caused by using LOG_PERROR: dbus/dbus-sysdeps-util-unix.c: openlog ("dbus", LOG_PID | LOG_PERROR, LOG_DAEMON); LOG_PERROR makes it send the messages to stderr as well. By default all services have their stderr bridged to syslog by systemd. Thus all messages from dbus-daemon reach the syslog twice: once directly and once indirectly via the stderr->syslog bridge. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dbus-1.4.10-3.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. look for dbus-daemon in /var/log/messages Actual results: duplicate messages Expected results: no duplication Additional info: To fix this, please either remove the LOG_PERROR flag, or use StandardError=null in the dbus.service unit file (with an explanatory comment).
I'll prepare a patch for dbus upstream
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This issue is not fixed, still a problem on Fedora 18: Feb 10 05:24:45 localhost dbus-daemon[604]: dbus[604]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 10 05:24:45 localhost dbus[604]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 10 05:24:45 localhost dbus-daemon[604]: dbus[604]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Feb 10 05:24:45 localhost dbus[604]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
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How is progress for this bug? I it still unsolved for Fedora 19. Jul 6 16:39:46 anton dbus-daemon[373]: dbus[373]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Jul 6 16:39:46 anton dbus[373]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Jul 6 16:39:46 anton dbus-daemon[373]: dbus[373]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Jul 6 16:39:46 anton dbus[373]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Jul 6 16:39:49 anton dbus-daemon[373]: dbus[373]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Jul 6 16:39:49 anton dbus[373]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Jul 6 16:39:49 anton dbus-daemon[373]: dbus[373]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Jul 6 16:39:49 anton dbus[373]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
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Fedora 18 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2014-01-14. Fedora 18 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.
Please reopen and change product version to 19.
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Fedora 19 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-01-06. Fedora 19 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.