Comment 4 for bug 775703

As I am the default assignee for the merge, I didn't check for bug reports about it. I already have merged it (in fact the diff looks pretty much like your's). I didn't upload it yet because 5.8.0 keeps spamming syslog with

May 4 15:41:28 donald rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103
May 4 15:41:28 donald rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101
May 4 15:41:28 donald rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]

over and over again, with pretty much every "real" message that comes in. Do you have the same problem when running this?