thermald: suppress systemd failure message when running in a VM

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[SRU Justification] (Vivid, Trusty)

Systems that thermald cannot support will see systemd failure messages on boot. This fix suppresses these messages.

[Test Case]
Boot machine, observe systemd logs. Without the fix systemd will complain that thermald has failed. With the fix, this message is no longer appearing.

[Regression Potential]
This fix is mainly cosmetic, so I can't think of any.

Hello Colin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted thermald into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thermald/1.4.3-3~14.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello Colin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted thermald into vivid-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thermald/1.4.3-3~15.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Verified on vivid-proposed in a VM

Verified on trusty-proposed in a VM too

This bug was fixed in the package thermald - 1.4.3-3~14.04.1

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thermald (1.4.3-3~14.04.1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Fix null pointer deferences with _ART active trip points (LP: #1480821)
  * Re-enable lockfile (LP: #1480892)
  * Report multiple instances of thermald with thd_log_fatal (LP: #1432220)
  * Suppress systemd failed service messages (e.g. on VMs) (LP: #1480182)

 -- Colin King <email address hidden> Tue, 4 Aug 2015 11:50:00 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for thermald has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package thermald - 1.4.3-3~15.04.1

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thermald (1.4.3-3~15.04.1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Fix null pointer deferences with _ART active trip points (LP: #1480821)
  * Re-enable lockfile (LP: #1480892)
  * Report multiple instances of thermald with thd_log_fatal (LP: #1432220)
  * Suppress systemd failed service messages (e.g. on VMs) (LP: #1480182)

 -- Colin King <email address hidden> Tue, 4 Aug 2015 11:48:00 +0100