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Message #01302
[Bug 1323089] Re: wpa_supplicant writes to syslog every 2 minutes
Same bug here on Kubuntu 14.04:
25:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205
[Taylor Peak] (rev 34)
Jul 17 19:37:08 NUVS-18097301A wpa_supplicant[1085]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
Jul 17 19:37:23 NUVS-18097301A wpa_supplicant[1085]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
Jul 17 19:39:08 NUVS-18097301A wpa_supplicant[1085]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
Jul 17 19:39:23 NUVS-18097301A wpa_supplicant[1085]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
Jul 17 19:41:08 NUVS-18097301A wpa_supplicant[1085]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
Jul 17 19:49:08 NUVS-18097301A wpa_supplicant[1085]: message repeated 4 times: [ wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED ]
Jul 17 19:49:23 NUVS-18097301A wpa_supplicant[1085]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
Jul 17 19:51:08 NUVS-18097301A wpa_supplicant[1085]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
Jul 17 19:51:23 NUVS-18097301A wpa_supplicant[1085]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
Jul 17 19:53:08 NUVS-18097301A wpa_supplicant[1085]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
The computer is a HP Elitebook 8570w
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Title:
wpa_supplicant writes to syslog every 2 minutes
Status in “wpa” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
wpasupplicant 2.1-0ubuntu1
wpa_supplicant is writing to syslog every couple of minutes. Example
output:
May 25 19:57:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
May 25 19:57:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 19:59:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
May 25 19:59:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:00:58 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
May 25 20:01:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
May 25 20:01:24 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:03:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
May 25 20:03:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:05:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
May 25 20:05:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:05:58 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
May 25 20:07:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
May 25 20:07:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:09:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
May 25 20:09:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
May 25 20:10:58 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
May 25 20:13:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: message repeated 2 times: [ wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED ]
May 25 20:13:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
The message seems harmless as far as the network is concerned, meaning
there is no problem with the wifi connection. But it's spamming the
syslog, making it very difficult to find any other thing there, and
it's generating constant writes to disk, and an unnecessarily large
syslog file.
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