Bug 864142

Summary:	sys-libs/gpm-1.20.7-r4 systemd complains about an obsolete standard output type in the unite file
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Julien Delquié <julien.dlq>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Julien Delquié 2022-08-07 06:21:18 UTC

I don't remember when this appeared, but I have time to write this bug report.

août 07 07:56:38 pasokon.maison systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/gpm.service:7: Standard output type syslog is obsolete, automatically updating to journal. Plea>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start GPM service at boot,
2.Watch journalctl when boot is done,
3.Search for gpm entries.
Actual Results:  
A line is telling that Standard output type syslog is obsolete, automatically updating to journal

Expected Results:  
No more line, because gpm.service contains journal instead of syslog as Standard output type.

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2022-08-07 09:59:18 UTC

I do not understand this report.

* please set LANG=C
* write exactly how to reproduce and what the bug is
* if you have logs, please attach them and reopen the ticket

Comment 2 Julien Delquié 2022-08-07 15:09:02 UTC

I will try this, when I have time.

I'm sorry, I forgot a line just before the second line of my original post, this was a log from « journalctl --unit=gpm.service », in French, yes, sorry for that too, but the interesting part is in english in fact.
Here is the line with the interesting part:
systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/gpm.service:7: Standard output type syslog is obsolete, automatically updating to journal. Please update your unit file, and consider removing the setting altogether.

But for me, the issue is simple, I think.

- Service section of /lib/systemd/system/gpm.service is:
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t exps2
StandardOutput=syslog
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/gpm.pid

- Service section of /lib/systemd/system/gpm.service should be:
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t exps2
StandardOutput=journal
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/gpm.pid

So, just change StandardOutput=syslog, to StandardOutput=journal, am I wrong?

I will try to override it, using « sudo systemctl edit gpm.service ».
And we will see what happens.

For information, the steps to reproduce are in my original post:
1.Start GPM service at boot,
2.Watch journalctl when boot is done,
3.Search for gpm entries.

Comment 3 Julien Delquié 2022-08-07 19:43:14 UTC

Ok, I will put ~amd64 for sys-libs/gpm in accepted keywords, and use =sys-libs/gpm-1.20.7-r5.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 792822 ***