[Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#927181: matrix-synapse: hard to troubleshoot

[Linda Lapinlampi]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 02:46:24AM +0300, sergio wrote:
> On 24/04/2019 02:11, Linda Lapinlampi wrote:
> > What would you propose to be fixed in the Debian package?
> 
> Instead of eating stderr to devnul, initscript must show it to the
> terminal.

I took a look, and it may seem to be that this is configured from
/etc/matrix-synapse/log.yaml. This change by andrewsh may be relevant:
https://salsa.debian.org/matrix-team/matrix-synapse/commit/ff086b91c0c7a34ab2167178174cbe3978bd442e

Upstream seems to log to file and console handlers. Debian logs to file
and journal.

I don't think it's uncommon for running daemons to fail to journalctl
(on systemd) "quietly". If this is an issue with sysvinit/non-systemd
inits only, then I can agree there's a possible issue to fix.