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