logspam about Duplicate line for path "/var/log"

[Seth Arnold]

Similar to bug 1484027, but that's marked 'Fix released', so something must have regressed in the meantime.

$ journalctl | grep "Duplicate line" | wc -l
58

$ grep "/var/log " /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/00rsyslog.conf:# Override systemd's default tmpfiles.d/var.conf to make /var/log writable by
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/00rsyslog.conf:d /var/log 0775 root syslog -
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:d /var/log 0755 - - -

Ideally I'd see at most one line about this in my logs.

Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: systemd 229-4ubuntu20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-87.110-generic 4.4.73
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-87-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 3 19:42:41 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-04 (578 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160325)
MachineType: Supermicro SSG-6038R-E1CR16L
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-87-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=d1ab8bd8-41d5-4142-92d6-d0926539807b ro
SourcePackage: systemd
SystemdDelta:
 [EXTENDED] /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service → /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service.d/debian.conf
 [EXTENDED] /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service → /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable-with-time-daemon.conf
 [EXTENDED] /lib/systemd/system/systemd-resolved.service → /lib/systemd/system/systemd-resolved.service.d/resolvconf.conf

 3 overridden configuration files found.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/17/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2.0
dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.board.name: X10DRH-iT
dmi.board.vendor: Supermicro
dmi.board.version: 1.01
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Supermicro
dmi.chassis.version: Default string
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2.0:bd12/17/2015:svnSupermicro:pnSSG-6038R-E1CR16L:pvr123456789:rvnSupermicro:rnX10DRH-iT:rvr1.01:cvnSupermicro:ct1:cvrDefaultstring:
dmi.product.name: SSG-6038R-E1CR16L
dmi.product.version: 123456789
dmi.sys.vendor: Supermicro

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

$ dpkg -l systemd rsyslog | cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-===============-============-=========================================
ii rsyslog 8.16.0-1ubuntu3 amd64 reliable system and kernel logging daemon
ii systemd 229-4ubuntu20 amd64 system and service manager

Thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rsyslog - 8.32.0-1ubuntu3

---------------
rsyslog (8.32.0-1ubuntu3) bionic; urgency=medium

  * tmpfiles.d: Let var.conf to create /var/log with 'd' directive, and
    only adjust the permissions of /var/log with 'z' directive, thus
    avoiding warnings about duplicate lines for path /var/log. LP:
    #1730028

rsyslog (8.32.0-1ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Ensure correct permissions on files that rsyslog writes to. LP:
    #1761630
  * Drop upgrade scripts from pre-xenial.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:44:54 +0100