Bug 350601

Summary: NetworkManager spams /var/log/NetworkManager if wifi is disabled by killswitch
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Jan Ritzerfeld <suse>
Component: NetworkAssignee: Helmut Schaa <hschaa>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Attachments: NetworkManager log file of a whole day
Log with new iwlwifi driver
Log of NN after re-enabling wlan0 by killswitch and disconnecting eth0

Description Jan Ritzerfeld 2007-12-24 13:11:26 UTC 
I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad R61 8919-6VG with the iwl4965 driver. If I boot with the the wireless network disabled via the radio killswitch, NetworkManager will spam /var/log/NetworkManager with ten messages per minute. Then, if I enable and disable the network via the killswitch again, the messages stop.

This looks similar to Bug #310509 but the messages are different.

Dec 24 13:37:52 karl syslog-ng[2487]: last message repeated 9 times
Dec 24 13:37:54 karl NetworkManager: <info>  Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - hal-ipw-killswitch-linux returned 255
Comment 1 Mark Gordon 2007-12-28 20:00:38 UTC 
For completeness, could you attach the full /var/log/NetworkManager?
Comment 2 Jan Ritzerfeld 2007-12-28 20:38:37 UTC 
Created attachment 188885 [details]
NetworkManager log file of a whole day
Comment 3 JP Rosevear 2008-01-24 13:50:58 UTC 
This looks kind of like bug 310509
Comment 4 Jan Ritzerfeld 2008-01-24 17:34:29 UTC 
I do not think so. The (error) messages are (totally) different. Here "NotSupported", there "InvalidArgs".
Comment 5 Tambet Ingo 2008-03-04 20:34:43 UTC 
It's a driver issue which can be worked around with rmmod/insmod the driver:
http://www.mail-archive.com/networkmanager-list@gnome.org/msg07445.html

Reassigning.
Comment 6 Helmut Schaa 2008-03-05 08:59:23 UTC 
Jan, please try iwlwifi-1.2.24 from my buildservice repo at [1]. Does the issue still show up?

[1] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/openSUSE_10.3_update/
Comment 7 Jan Ritzerfeld 2008-03-05 17:56:25 UTC 
No, it does not show up anymore, it looks fine. Thanks!
Comment 8 Jan Ritzerfeld 2008-03-05 17:58:36 UTC 
Created attachment 198886 [details]
Log with new iwlwifi driver

The log with the new iwlwifi driver installed. From boot up to 18:53.
Comment 9 Jan Ritzerfeld 2008-03-05 19:32:20 UTC 
Too bad, there is another problem now:
At 20:08, I tried to switch to wireless LAN by re-enabling it via the radio killswitch and then disconnecting the wired LAN. However, NN or HAL insisted in the killswitch being in its old position, thus overriding my request to enable the wireless network.

Or do I have to install any update package in addition to iwlwifi-kmp-default-1.2.24_2.6.22.17_0.1-26.1 ?
Comment 10 Jan Ritzerfeld 2008-03-05 19:37:04 UTC 
Created attachment 198904 [details]
Log of NN after re-enabling wlan0 by killswitch and disconnecting eth0

This log is the continuation of the last one. NN or HAL did not get the killswitch state change. Then I stopped NN.
Comment 11 Helmut Schaa 2008-03-06 09:50:36 UTC 
Jan, would you please open a new bug for the new issue (comment #9+10) and assign it to me? Thanks.

Closing as FIXED.
Comment 12 Jan Ritzerfeld 2008-03-06 18:48:20 UTC 
Bug 367902 submitted.