Package: network-manager Version: 0.6.4-6 Severity: important
NetworkManager spams syslog with useless hal and wpa-supplicant debug messages. This is not configurable--it is hardcoded in. The wpa-supplicant argument line is hard coded with "-dd". There is no way to reduce this chatter without editing the source and recompiling. To give you an idea of the scale of the chatter: $ cat /var/log/syslog /var/log/syslog.0 | grep -c NetworkManager 13409 $ cat /var/log/syslog /var/log/syslog.0 | wc -l 19069 Such messages include: Jun 27 23:07:01 saikung NetworkManager: <debug info>^I[1183000021.488072] nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_a5c_2110_noserial_if0_bluetooth_hci'). Jun 27 23:07:01 saikung NetworkManager: <debug info>^I[1183000021.488744] nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_a5c_2110_noserial_if3'). Jun 27 23:07:01 saikung NetworkManager: <debug info>^I[1183000021.543182] nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_a5c_2110_noserial_if2'). Jun 27 23:07:01 saikung kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 69 Jun 27 23:07:01 saikung NetworkManager: <debug info>^I[1183000021.574625] nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_a5c_2110_noserial_usbraw'). Jun 27 23:07:01 saikung kernel: usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jun 28 06:22:21 saikung NetworkManager: <debug info>^I[1183026141.078849] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_a5c_2110_noserial_usbraw'). Jun 28 06:22:21 saikung NetworkManager: <debug info>^I[1183026141.085030] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_a5c_2110_noserial_if0'). Jun 28 06:22:21 saikung NetworkManager: <debug info>^I[1183026141.085339] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_483_2016_noserial_usbraw'). Jun 28 06:22:29 saikung NetworkManager: <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(9271): wpa_driver_wext_associate Jun 28 06:22:29 saikung NetworkManager: <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(9271): Setting authentication timeout: 10 sec 0 usec Jun 28 06:22:29 saikung NetworkManager: <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(9271): EAPOL: External notification - portControl=ForceAuthorized Jun 28 06:22:29 saikung NetworkManager: <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(9271): RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP]) Jun 28 06:22:29 saikung NetworkManager: <information>^Iwpa_supplicant(9271): Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8 Note that my access point does not use WPA, and I have not actually encountered other error conditions with NetworkManager as of /var/log/syslog.0. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii dhcdbd 2.0-3 D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl ii hal 0.5.8.1-9 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii ifupdown 0.6.8 high level tools to configure netw ii iproute 20061002-3 Professional tools to control the ii iputils-arping 3:20020927-6 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.71-3 simple interprocess ii libgcrypt11 1.2.3-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpg-error0 1.4-1 library for common error values an ii libhal1 0.5.8.1-9 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libiw28 28-1 Wireless tools - library ii libnl1-pre6 1.0~pre6-2 Library for dealing with netlink s ii libnm-util0 0.6.4-6 network management framework (shar ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii wpasupplicant 0.5.5-2 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I network-manager recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]