Thanks Anthony for reporting the issue. According to the systemd.exec.5 man-page:
ProtectHome= Takes a boolean argument or the special values "read-only" or "tmpfs". Debian's rsyslog 8.2312.0-2 has debian/rsyslog.service:24:ProtectHome=yes Ubuntu's rsyslog 8.2312.0-2ubuntu1 has debian/rsyslog.service:24:ProtectHome=readonly Only Ubuntu Noble is affected. ** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron) ** Tags added: foundations-todo ** Tags added: fr-6404 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to rsyslog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2051405 Title: ProtectHome setting in debian/rsyslog.service isn't understood by systemd Status in rsyslog package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Small bug introduced in commit e175f5c3668adc1c65f66efb61f70060569c9fe8 https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/commit/?id=e175f5c3668adc1c65f66efb61f70060569c9fe8 which changed the rsyslog.service line of ProtectHome=yes to ProtectHome=readonly Systemd doesn't understand "readonly" https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.exec.html and will mention in its journal: systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service:24: Failed to parse protect home value, ignoring: readonly Quickfix: just needs a hyphen on line 24 to read 'read-only' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/2051405/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp