Bug#939615: rtkit: Flooding syslog

[Oliver Schode <oliver.schode@online.de>]

Package: rtkit
Version: 0.12-4
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Hello,

beginning with the latest update, rtkit-daemon is filling my syslog with
near identical, informational messages like:

    Sep 06 20:41:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[14050]: Supervising 17 threads of 9 processes of 1 users.
    Sep 06 20:41:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[14050]: Supervising 17 threads of 9 processes of 1 users.
    Sep 06 20:41:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[14050]: Supervising 17 threads of 9 processes of 1 users.
    Sep 06 20:41:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[14050]: Supervising 17 threads of 9 processes of 1 users.
    Sep 06 20:41:56 localhost rtkit-daemon[14050]: Supervising 17 threads of 9 processes of 1 users.
    Sep 06 20:41:56 localhost rtkit-daemon[14050]: Successfully made thread 14634 of process 14618 owned by '1000' RT at priority 10.
    Sep 06 20:41:56 localhost rtkit-daemon[14050]: Supervising 16 threads of 9 processes of 1 users.
    Sep 06 20:41:56 localhost rtkit-daemon[14050]: Supervising 16 threads of 9 processes of 1 users.
    Sep 06 20:41:56 localhost rtkit-daemon[14050]: Successfully made thread 14635 of process 14618 owned by '1000' RT at priority 10.
    Sep 06 20:41:56 localhost rtkit-daemon[14050]: Supervising 15 threads of 8 processes of 1 users.
    Sep 06 20:41:56 localhost rtkit-daemon[14050]: Supervising 15 threads of 8 processes of 1 users.
    (...)

See also:
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rtkit/+bug/1547589

Currently, in order to stop it I too had to uninstall as there doesn't
seem to be an easy way to terminate it and rtkit-daemon apparently has
no option to disable logging or even to reduce its level.

Greetings,
Oliver