[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#755477: network-manager: fills up /var/log/partition

Mon Jul 21 08:54:58 UTC 2014

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.10.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I have just upgraded network-manager to 0.9.10. Since the upgrade when
activating
the hotspot/shared AP feature, network-manager will 'spam' /var/log/deamon.log
with the message provided bellow. This ends up filling up completly the
partition containing /var/log and preventing parts of the system from
running. The filling up is also relatively fast, it took a few minutes to
reach 2GB on a laptop HDD.

I am not sure what causes the original issue, I will investigate this later.

But whatever the underlying problem is, don't you think network-manager should
have
safeguards to avoid filling up the logs and ending up breaking the
system? At least it could wait between retries to avoid filling up the log too
quickly.

Regarding the original issue could it be caused by the fact that the
name of the computer and the SSID of the hotspot are the same ('yuno')?
This would explain the "Name not unique on network" part of the logs.

Anyway thanks for your awesome work.

Best regards,

Log message bellow:

Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno NetworkManager[2804]: <info> (mon.wlan0):
supplicant interface state: starting -> down
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: Could not set interface
mon.wlan0 flags: Name not unique on network
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: nl80211: Could not set
interface 'mon.wlan0' UP
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: Could not set interface
mon.wlan0 flags: Name not unique on network
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: WEXT: Could not set interface
'mon.wlan0' UP
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: mon.wlan0: Failed to
initialize driver interface
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno NetworkManager[2804]: <error> [1405929717.489944]
[supplicant-manager/nm-supplicant-interface.c:856] interface_add_cb():
(mon.wlan0): error adding interface: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab this
interface.
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno NetworkManager[2804]: <info> (mon.wlan0):
supplicant interface state: starting -> down
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: Could not set interface
mon.wlan0 flags: Name not unique on network
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: nl80211: Could not set
interface 'mon.wlan0' UP
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: Could not set interface
mon.wlan0 flags: Name not unique on network
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: WEXT: Could not set interface
'mon.wlan0' UP
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: mon.wlan0: Failed to
initialize driver interface
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno NetworkManager[2804]: <error> [1405929717.490598]
[supplicant-manager/nm-supplicant-interface.c:856] interface_add_cb():
(mon.wlan0): error adding interface: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab this
interface.
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno NetworkManager[2804]: <info> (mon.wlan0):
supplicant interface state: starting -> down
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: Could not set interface
mon.wlan0 flags: Name not unique on network
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: nl80211: Could not set
interface 'mon.wlan0' UP
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: Could not set interface
mon.wlan0 flags: Name not unique on network
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: WEXT: Could not set interface
'mon.wlan0' UP
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: mon.wlan0: Failed to
initialize driver interface
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno NetworkManager[2804]: <error> [1405929717.490598]
[supplicant-manager/nm-supplicant-interface.c:856] interface_add_cb():
(mon.wlan0): error adding interface: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab this
interface.
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno NetworkManager[2804]: <info> (mon.wlan0):
supplicant interface state: starting -> down
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: Could not set interface
mon.wlan0 flags: Name not unique on network
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: nl80211: Could not set
interface 'mon.wlan0' UP
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno NetworkManager[2804]: <info> caught signal 15,
shutting down normally.
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: Could not set interface
mon.wlan0 flags: Name not unique on network
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: WEXT: Could not set interface
'mon.wlan0' UP
Jul 21 17:01:57 yuno wpa_supplicant[993]: mon.wlan0: Failed to
initialize driver interface

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.8.6-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.19
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.0+dfsg-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-7
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.6-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.3-4
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-3
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28      3.2.15-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         208-6
ii  libmm-glib0            1.2.0-1
ii  libndp0                1.3-1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.17-1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.24-2
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.10.0-1
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.10.0-1
ii  libpam-systemd         208-6
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-6
ii  libreadline6           6.3-6
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.46.0-2
ii  libsystemd-daemon0     208-6
ii  libsystemd-login0      208-6
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.8
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13
ii  policykit-1            0.105-6
ii  udev                   208-6
ii  wpasupplicant          1.1-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.71-1
ii  iptables      1.4.21-2
ii  modemmanager  1.2.0-1
pn  ppp           <none>

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.31-4

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