On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:23 PM Christophe Fergeau <cferg...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On most distros, spice-vdagent will be autostarted as part of the
> startup of the desktop environment session. This is done by
> spice-vdagent.desktop, which has no way of checking if we are in a virt
> environment with the needed devices present.
>
> Currently, if /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 is missing, we log an
> error in syslog, and exit with an error exit code. This is too noisy
> when autostarting it on a bare metal machine which have no use for
> spice-vdagent. This reverts 0159111b to get rid of these warnings in the
> session's logs
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/issues/12
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Fergeau <cferg...@redhat.com>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
> - switched to g_debug as g_print would show in journalctl
Why is this wanted? What if the vdagent is running in a virtualized
system and the device is missing? In that case, I would expect to see
at least some info in the system journal.
So why not just lowering the log level to something like LOG_INFO?
Cheers,
Jakub
> - reworded the message
>
> src/vdagent/vdagent.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/vdagent/vdagent.c b/src/vdagent/vdagent.c
> index 90247f9..ff3328c 100644
> --- a/src/vdagent/vdagent.c
> +++ b/src/vdagent/vdagent.c
> @@ -451,8 +451,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> LOG_USER);
>
> if (file_test(portdev) != 0) {
> - syslog(LOG_ERR, "Cannot access vdagent virtio channel %s", portdev);
> - return 1;
> + g_debug("vdagent virtio channel %s does not exist, exiting",
> portdev);
> + return 0;
> }
>
> if (do_daemonize)
> --
> 2.20.1
>
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