Bug#939615: rtkit: Flooding syslog

[Ivo Vegter <ivo@ivo.co.za>]

rtkit cannot be silenced by changing log levels, or even by redirecting output to /dev/null. My

/etc/systemd/system/rtkit-daemon.service.d/log.conf looks like this:

[Service]

MaxLogLevel=3

StandardOutput=null

StandardError=null

...and still rtkit writes reams of junk to the system log. Since it is a required dependency of some other software I have installed (flatpak, via xdg-desktop-portal), and something (perhaps pipewire or librewolf) auto-restarts it if you stop/disable it, there is no way to escape the hell that is rtkit supervising threads.

I'm running a newly-installed Arch system, btw.

Please help.