Bug 1215567 - Starting xfce4 desktop causes kernel to spam /var/log/messages, stops on logging out of desktop
Summary: Starting xfce4 desktop causes kernel to spam /var/log/messages, stops on logg...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1215523
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Product: openSUSE Distribution
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Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
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Reported: 2023-09-21 10:46 UTC by Andreas Kupries
Modified: 2023-09-21 11:05 UTC (History)
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2023-09-21 10:46 UTC, Andreas Kupries 		Details
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Description Andreas Kupries 2023-09-21 10:46:50 UTC 
Created attachment 869650 [details]
message block spammed into /var/log/messages

This issue is placed into component `kernel` instead of `xfce` because it appeared in the kernel upgrade

from 5.14.21-150400.24.81.1-default
to   5.14.21-150400.24.84-default

I did yesterday evening, and becoming active this morning.
Note, the xfce desktop was not upgraded.

My workaround for the issue was going back to kernel .81

The moment I am logging into the xfce desktop the log file `/var/log/messages` is spammed with the attached message block, at a rate of several MB/sec.

Logging out of the desktop stops the spamming. 

The message block looks to come from the kernel.
Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2023-09-21 11:05:52 UTC 
A dup of bug 1215523

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1215523 ***