On Thu, 2019-05-30 at 12:23 +0200, Thomas Haller via networkmanager-
list wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 12:23 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 09:28 +0200, Thomas Haller via
> > networkmanager-
> > list wrote:
> > > If this is happening, when you kill NetworkManager with SIGKILL,
> > > it
> > > would not give NetworkManager to cleanup...
> > > 
> > >   sudo killall -SIGKILL NetworkManager
> > > 
> > > (and veryify that NetworkManager is indeed not running. Maybe
> > > first
> > > `systemctl mask NetworkManager`, so that systemd won't restart
> > > it).
> > 
> > Are you suggesting that I kill NM with SIGKILL as a debugging step
> > to
> > see if the RSes still stop when stopping NM?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > If so, that was an interesting experiment:
> > 
> > # killall -SIGKILL NetworkManager
> > # ps -ef | grep Network
> > root     15001     1  0 12:02 ?        00:00:00
> > /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
> > 
> > So clearly systemd restarted it, but it's not flooding RSes after
> > the
> > restart.
> 
> Ah ok. That's what I meant with first masking NetworkManager.

# systemctl mask NetworkManager
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service to /dev/null.
# killall -SIGKILL NetworkManager
# systemctl status NetworkManager
● NetworkManager.service
   Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)
   Active: failed (Result: signal) since Sat 2019-06-01 06:53:23 EDT; 39s ago
 Main PID: 4286 (code=killed, signal=KILL)

May 31 22:04:18 server.example.com NetworkManager[4286]: <info>  
[1559354658.5223] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_SITE
May 31 22:04:18 server.example.com NetworkManager[4286]: <info>  
[1559354658.5274] policy: set 'enp2s0' (enp2s0) as default for IPv6 routing and 
DNS
May 31 22:04:18 server.example.com NetworkManager[4286]: <info>  
[1559354658.5670] device (enp2s0): Activation: successful, device activated.
May 31 22:04:18 server.example.com NetworkManager[4286]: <info>  
[1559354658.5807] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
May 31 22:04:18 server.example.com NetworkManager[4286]: <info>  
[1559354658.5934] manager: startup complete
May 31 22:04:33 server.example.com NetworkManager[4286]: <info>  
[1559354673.1941] policy: set 'enp2s0' (enp2s0) as default for IPv4 routing and 
DNS
Jun 01 06:53:09 server.example.com systemd[1]: Current command vanished from 
the unit file, execution of the command list won't be resumed.
Jun 01 06:53:23 server.example.com systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: main 
process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
Jun 01 06:53:23 server.example.com systemd[1]: Unit NetworkManager.service 
entered failed state.
Jun 01 06:53:23 server.example.com systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service failed.

Before killing NM, it was flooding out RSes and after killing it it
stopped.

> If you kill NetworkManager with SIGKILL (without letting
> NetworkManager
> restart), it would not give NetworkManager time to do anything.
> If that stops the flodding, then the messages were sent by
> NetworkManager -- otherwise not.

Indeed.

> Thanks. It would be most interesting to see them at the moment when
> the
> flodding happen.s

Damn.  I should have gathered these before killing NM because now that
I have and have restarted it, it's not flooding again.

I will update here the sysctl content when I see it flooding again.

Cheers,
b.

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