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 ~$ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to wpa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323089 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/1323089/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
