[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#532238: Bug#532238: fglrx-atieventsd: authatieventsd.sh retried forever

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:54:22PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
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> Daniel Jacobowitz schrieb:
> > Package: fglrx-atieventsd
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > I installed fglrx-atieventsd along with the rest of the fglrx packages
> > today, and my hard disk immediately started spinning.  I discovered it
> > was logging to auth.log every few seconds by running 'su', from
> > authatieventsd.sh.  The command was presumably failing and then being
> > retried forever.
> > 
> > After a reboot into the fglrx driver and a reconfigured X server, I
> > can no longer reproduce this; but is there any way to stop the script
> > from being constantly re-run?
> 
> Hmm what was exactly failing?
> 
> For the start thing.. I think I will add a default file for it the next
> time.

I'm not sure :-(  Here's the only log got:

Jun  7 09:27:31 caradoc su[8778]: Successful su for drow by root
Jun  7 09:27:31 caradoc su[8778]: + ??? root:drow
Jun  7 09:27:31 caradoc su[8778]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened
for user drow by (uid=0)
Jun  7 09:27:31 caradoc su[8778]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed
for user drow
Jun  7 09:27:32 caradoc su[9350]: Successful su for drow by root
Jun  7 09:27:32 caradoc su[9350]: + ??? root:drow
Jun  7 09:27:32 caradoc su[9350]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened
for user drow by (uid=0)
Jun  7 09:27:32 caradoc su[9350]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed
for user drow
Jun  7 09:27:32 caradoc su[9407]: Successful su for drow by root
Jun  7 09:27:32 caradoc su[9407]: + ??? root:drow
Jun  7 09:27:32 caradoc su[9407]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened
for user drow by (uid=0)
Jun  7 09:27:32 caradoc su[9407]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed
for user drow
Jun  7 09:27:33 caradoc su[10006]: Successful su for drow by root
Jun  7 09:27:33 caradoc su[10006]: + ??? root:drow
Jun  7 09:27:33 caradoc su[10006]: pam_unix(su:session): session
opened for user drow by (uid=0)
Jun  7 09:27:33 caradoc su[10006]: pam_unix(su:session): session
closed for user drow
Jun  7 09:27:33 caradoc su[10064]: Successful su for drow by root
Jun  7 09:27:33 caradoc su[10064]: + ??? root:drow
Jun  7 09:27:33 caradoc su[10064]: pam_unix(su:session): session
opened for user drow by (uid=0)
Jun  7 09:27:33 caradoc su[10064]: pam_unix(su:session): session
closed for user drow

And so on, until I figured out what was running.

There was also this error, but fixing it by installing acpid didn't
help with the su logs:

Jun  7 09:49:50 caradoc atieventsd[21315]: ATI External Events Daemon
started...
Jun  7 09:49:50 caradoc atieventsd[21315]:  Configuration file:
/etc/ati/atieventsd.conf
Jun  7 09:49:50 caradoc atieventsd[21315]:      Control socket:
/var/run/atieventsd.socket
Jun  7 09:49:50 caradoc atieventsd[21315]:  ACPI daemon socket:
/var/run/acpid.socket
Jun  7 09:49:50 caradoc atieventsd[21315]:  X auth script file:
/etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh
Jun  7 09:49:50 caradoc atieventsd[21315]: Internal event queue size:
16
Jun  7 09:49:50 caradoc atieventsd[21315]: Control socket connection
created with handle: 4
Jun  7 09:49:50 caradoc atieventsd[21315]: Event daemon control socket
created
Jun  7 09:49:50 caradoc atieventsd[21315]: Socket for acpid connection
created with handle: 5
Jun  7 09:49:50 caradoc atieventsd[21315]: Unable to connect to acpid
Jun  7 09:49:51 caradoc atieventsd[21315]: Socket for acpid connection
created with handle: 5
Jun  7 09:49:51 caradoc atieventsd[21315]: Unable to connect to acpid

I wonder if I could reproduce it by starting X with the Radeon driver
instead of fglrx again.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery