On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Russell Senior <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Denis> On my Thinkpad L420 a message appears very briefly just prior to
> Denis> the login screen.  I have tried unsuccessfully to take a video of
> Denis> it since it appears for too short a time to read.  This morning I
> Denis> got the idea to delay entering my sign-in for two minutes.  Then
> Denis> I could look at dmesg and find the entries around the sign-in.
> Denis> Below is the section of (possible) interest.  Nothing has meaning
> Denis> to me.  How else might I find out what this mystery message is?
>
>   [Sat Dec  3 09:13:41 2016] VBoxNetFlt: Successfully started.
>   [Sat Dec  3 09:13:41 2016] VBoxNetAdp: Successfully started.
>   [Sat Dec  3 09:13:41 2016] VBoxPciLinuxInit
>   [Sat Dec  3 09:13:41 2016] vboxpci: IOMMU not found (not registered)
>
> The above are related to VirtualBox starting.  Do you use VirtualBox?
>
>   [Sat Dec  3 09:15:56 2016] wlp3s0: authenticate with 00:27:22:24:4a:96
>   [Sat Dec  3 09:15:56 2016] wlp3s0: send auth to 00:27:22:24:4a:96 (try
> 1/3)
>   [Sat Dec  3 09:15:56 2016] wlp3s0: authenticated
>
> and this is your wireless interface connecting to a wireless network.
>
>
> --
> Russell Senior, President
>

I do use VirtualBox.

I thought since I can detect no time delay between the transient message in
question and the opening of the sign-on window that any evidence of the
message would lie before the 2-minute delay.  Can I then conclude that the
message comes from VirtualBox?

-Denis
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