Hi.
So NetworkManager was giving me lots of debugging output. Having a look
on Google shows it doesn't have log levels, so my only option (apart
from turning it off) was to redirect its log output to a separate file.
It's growing quickly (remind me to set up logrotate!)
After I've removed NetworkManager from /var/log/messages, I'm left with:
Jan 29 23:45:59 orpheus .:
Jan 29 23:46:05 orpheus .:
Jan 29 23:46:11 orpheus .:
Jan 29 23:46:17 orpheus .:
Jan 29 23:46:23 orpheus .:
Jan 29 23:46:29 orpheus .:
and so on every 6 seconds. I think the "." is supposed to be the
program name, and obviously after the ":" comes the message "".
Every message seems to exactly correspond to this NetworkManager
message:
Jan 29 23:48:17 orpheus NetworkManager: <WARN> killswitch_getpower_reply():
Error getting killswitch power: Method "GetPower" with signature "" on
interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch" doesn't exist
Jan 29 23:48:17 orpheus NetworkManager: <WARN> killswitch_getpower_reply():
Error getting killswitch power: dellWirelessCtl (/usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl) not
available or executable.
Note the reference to /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl (which really doesn't
exist!) If I symlink /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl to /bin/false, all the
log messages stop and the last one says:
Jan 29 23:49:35 orpheus NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now disabled by radio
killswitch
If I leave the symlink there, NetworkManager won't bring up wireless, so
it's a useless "hack".
I don't really care about any killswitch operation, but I'm interested
in why I'm getting a "." message. NetworkManager bug or
misconfiguration error?
TIA,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
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