Re: [Bug 1323089] Re: wpa_supplicant writes to syslog every 2 minutes

[NoOp]

On 10/30/17 11:23 AM, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Launchpad really needs something similar to RESOLVED/DUPLICATE, as I had
> to crawl through the whole report to find out that this is considered a
> duplicate of 578431.
> 

Righthand column: "Mark as duplicate"
You can click and report this bug as a duplicate of 578431.

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Re: [Bug 1323089] Re: wpa_supplicant writes to syslog every 2 minutes

[WinEunuchs2Unix]

It's really a design flaw. Instead of saying every two minutes "Hey I
couldn't find a new AP". It should only say "I found AP number 99 and
connected to it" if and when it does.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 3:47 PM, rustyhamsterr 
wrote:

> I'm also affected, as my house has multiple AP's #24 is not working for me.
> My wifi card :
> System information:
> Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor
> Peak] (rev 34)
> Linux rustysTP 3.16.0-38-generic #52~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 8 09:43:57
> UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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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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Re: [Bug 1323089] Re: wpa_supplicant writes to syslog every 2 minutes

[WinEunuchs2Unix]

I'm not Anne and I don't fully remember this bug. I believe it was about
Linux looking for new WiFi routers to connect to every 2 minutes and
issuing a message when one was not found. This given there should be an
option within Ubuntu Network Manager (or whomever) to not message every 2
minutes when a new WiFi connection is not found.

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Neal McBurnett n...@bcn.boulder.co.us
wrote:

 Thank you Anne for describing what looks like one way to fix this for
 all connections, rather than the easy fix in #24 which only addresses
 one SSID.

 But I worry that making wpa_supplicant more quiet will hide messages
 that are important - what else would be suppressed?

 So I suspect that the bug should be fixed somewhere else, since it seems
 clear to me that default installs with popular wifi cards should not
 spam syslog, and this does seem to be related to only some forms of
 Intel wifi cards - mostly Centrino I guess.

 So what is printing this out, which developer explained the workaround
 (sometime after 2009?), and how do we clean up our syslogs?

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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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Re: [Bug 1323089] Re: wpa_supplicant writes to syslog every 2 minutes

[WinEunuchs2Unix]

Indeed under this free roaming philosophy even if another WiFi node is
found it should not be connected to unless the signal strength is hire.
Then and only then when connected a message should be sent.

Sending a message on success is infinitely preferable to a message of
failure to a connection you probably weren't looking for in the first place.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Rick Lee ricklee...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm not Anne and I don't fully remember this bug. I believe it was about
 Linux looking for new WiFi routers to connect to every 2 minutes and
 issuing a message when one was not found. This given there should be an
 option within Ubuntu Network Manager (or whomever) to not message every 2
 minutes when a new WiFi connection is not found.

 On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Neal McBurnett n...@bcn.boulder.co.us
 wrote:

 Thank you Anne for describing what looks like one way to fix this for
 all connections, rather than the easy fix in #24 which only addresses
 one SSID.

 But I worry that making wpa_supplicant more quiet will hide messages
 that are important - what else would be suppressed?

 So I suspect that the bug should be fixed somewhere else, since it seems
 clear to me that default installs with popular wifi cards should not
 spam syslog, and this does seem to be related to only some forms of
 Intel wifi cards - mostly Centrino I guess.

 So what is printing this out, which developer explained the workaround
 (sometime after 2009?), and how do we clean up our syslogs?

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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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