iwl3945 filling kern.log when HW switch is off
Hello, I hope this is the correct place to put a bug report in. I do not subscribe to this mailing list, but feel free to send PM in case you need additional info. You shoudn't :-)
After installing Ubuntu 13.10, I noticed kern.log growing faster than you could look at. Within a few working hours, kern.log was >6GB!
The reason is that I intentionally disabled WiFi on this laptop by turning the HW switch off. However, this makes iwl3945 write a log entry into kern.log every few microseconds!
The workaround is to turn the HW switch on. The bug fix would be to write just a single line to kern.log.
Regards
Dietmar
- - - from kern.log:
Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.144085] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.144214] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.145167] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.145304] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.146184] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.146315] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.147164] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.147304] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.148254] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.148387] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.149217] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.149347] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.150165] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.150294] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.151113] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.151243] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.152097] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Oct 22 18:28:52 C50 kernel: [ 141.152227] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch
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Dietmar Rudolph Geschäftsführer/President CR/LF GmbH Obere Fuhr 27, 45136 Essen, Germany phone: ++49 201 254566 mailto: [email protected], http://www.crlf.de CR/LF Beratungsgesellschaft für EDV-Anwendungen mbH Essen HRB 7016 - GF: Dipl.-Math. Dietmar Rudolph
Quoted 6 lines · Dietmar Rudolph
Hello, I hope this is the correct place to put a bug report in. I do not subscribe to this mailing list, but feel free to send PM in case you need additional info. You shoudn't :-)
After installing Ubuntu 13.10, I noticed kern.log growing faster than you could look at. Within a few working hours, kern.log was
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6GB!
The reason is that I intentionally disabled WiFi on this laptop by turning the HW switch off. However, this makes iwl3945 write a log entry into kern.log every few microseconds!
The workaround is to turn the HW switch on. The bug fix would be to write just a single line to kern.log.
This message is printed when someone try to UP device when RF kill switch is on. Either you did not compile kernel with CONFIG_RFKILL or your user space network management software does not handle rfkill .
Stanislaw
Quoted 13 lines · Stanislaw Gruszka
Quoted 12 lines · Dietmar Rudolph
Hello, I hope this is the correct place to put a bug report in. I do not subscribe to this mailing list, but feel free to send PM in case you need additional info. You shoudn't :-)
After installing Ubuntu 13.10, I noticed kern.log growing faster than you could look at. Within a few working hours, kern.log was
Quoted 1 line
6GB!
The reason is that I intentionally disabled WiFi on this laptop by turning the HW switch off. However, this makes iwl3945 write a log entry into kern.log every few microseconds!
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The workaround is to turn the HW switch on. The bug fix would be to write just a single line to kern.log.
This message is printed when someone try to UP device when RF kill switch is on. Either you did not compile kernel with
CONFIG_RFKILLor your user space network management software does not handle rfkill .
Though maybe it shouldn't actually print a dmesg error when that happens? Lots of software (scripts included) might try to open the device but not really know much about rfkill... Is there a way to print it once-per-rfkill instead maybe?
Dan
Quoted 17 lines · Dan Williams
Quoted 16 lines · Stanislaw Gruszka
Quoted 14 lines · Dietmar Rudolph
Hello, I hope this is the correct place to put a bug report in. I do not subscribe to this mailing list, but feel free to send PM in case you need additional info. You shoudn't :-)
After installing Ubuntu 13.10, I noticed kern.log growing faster than you could look at. Within a few working hours, kern.log was
Quoted 1 line
6GB!
The reason is that I intentionally disabled WiFi on this laptop by turning the HW switch off. However, this makes iwl3945 write a log entry into kern.log every few microseconds!
The workaround is to turn the HW switch on. The bug fix would be to write just a single line to kern.log.
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This message is printed when someone try to UP device when RF kill switch is on. Either you did not compile kernel with
CONFIG_RFKILLor your user space network management software does not handle rfkill .Though maybe it shouldn't actually print a dmesg error when that happens? Lots of software (scripts included) might try to open the device but not really know much about rfkill... Is there a way to print it once-per-rfkill instead maybe?
I'll just remove this message. We can return ERFKILL error instead. That will allow user to identify problem without message.
Thanks
Stanislaw