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[WinEunuchs2Unix <RickLee518@xxxxxxxxx>]

It doesn't happen with Intel 3495 abg (wlan0) when 802.11n is turned off
but will happen if 802.11n is active for other wifi adapters.  It
happens with RTL2800 bgn (wlan1), BCM43526 ac+gn (wlan2), Intel Centrino
6235 bgn (wlan3) and now with RTL 3072 bgn (wlan4).

Very aggravating, especially since since I don't know what CTRL-EVEN-
SCAN-STARTED is and if I need on every minute instead of once a day.  I
might pick up an Atheros wifi adapter soon but I'll bet my favorite
laptop sticker it'll have the same grief with 802.11n.  And NO I'm not
turning off 802.11n because I like seeing "Bit Rate:115.Mb/s" on my
Conky display instead of "54 Mb/s".

Could a kernel developer or network-manager programmer not give some
advise to these many posts littering the netosphere please?

Don't even get me started ranting about 802.11ac...

PROOF:
Aug 17 17:49:15 Rick-Satellite-L300 wpa_supplicant[1491]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
Aug 17 17:50:18 Rick-Satellite-L300 wpa_supplicant[1491]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
Aug 17 17:50:25 Rick-Satellite-L300 wpa_supplicant[1491]: wlan4: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
Aug 17 17:51:21 Rick-Satellite-L300 wpa_supplicant[1491]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
Aug 17 17:52:24 Rick-Satellite-L300 wpa_supplicant[1491]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
Aug 17 17:52:25 Rick-Satellite-L300 wpa_supplicant[1491]: wlan4: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
Aug 17 17:53:27 Rick-Satellite-L300 wpa_supplicant[1491]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
Aug 17 17:54:25 Rick-Satellite-L300 wpa_supplicant[1491]: wlan4: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 
Aug 17 17:54:30 Rick-Satellite-L300 wpa_supplicant[1491]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED 

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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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