[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#959476: wicd-daemon: spams the logs with "Throttling autoreconnect" messages

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: wicd-daemon
Version: 1.7.4+tb2-6
Severity: important

wicd-daemon spams the logs with "Throttling autoreconnect" messages,
mostly during the same second:

zira% journalctl -b | wc -l                                            
56765
zira% journalctl -b -u wicd | grep -c 'Throttling autoreconnect'       
41075
zira% journalctl -b -u wicd | grep 'Throttling autoreconnect' | uniq | wc -l 
260

In short, these messages take 72% of the logs, and each time they
appear, they appear 158 times the same second! If I did not have
these duplicates, the messages would take only 260 lines over the
15000+ other lines.

Note: My machine is usually connected by Ethernet (not managed by wicd),
and I still get these messages while there should be no connection
attempt from wicd.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser           3.118
ii  dbus              1.12.16-2
ii  debconf           1.5.74
ii  iputils-ping      3:20190709-3
ii  isc-dhcp-client   4.4.1-2.1+b2
ii  lsb-base          11.1.0
ii  psmisc            23.3-1
ii  python            2.7.17-2
ii  python-dbus       1.2.16-2
ii  python-gobject-2  2.28.6-14+b1
ii  python-wicd       1.7.4+tb2-6
ii  wireless-tools    30~pre9-13.1
ii  wpasupplicant     2:2.9.0-12

Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends:
ii  rfkill                     2.34-0.1
ii  wicd-curses [wicd-client]  1.7.4+tb2-6
ii  wicd-gtk [wicd-client]     1.7.4+tb2-6

Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests:
pn  pm-utils  <none>

Versions of packages wicd depends on:
ii  wicd-curses [wicd-client]  1.7.4+tb2-6
ii  wicd-gtk [wicd-client]     1.7.4+tb2-6

Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on:
ii  python         2.7.17-2
ii  python-glade2  2.24.0-6
ii  python-gtk2    2.24.0-6

Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends:
ii  menu           2.1.47+b1
ii  policykit-1    0.105-26
ii  python-notify  0.1.1-4+b2

Versions of packages wicd-curses depends on:
ii  python        2.7.17-2
ii  python-urwid  2.0.1-2+b2

Versions of packages wicd-curses recommends:
ii  sudo  1.8.31p1-1

Versions of packages python-wicd depends on:
ii  net-tools  1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1
ii  python     2.7.17-2

Versions of packages python-wicd suggests:
ii  ethtool   1:5.4-1
ii  iproute2  5.6.0-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/wicd/encryption/templates/active changed:
wpa
wpa-peap
wpa-peap-wo-domain
wpa-psk
wpa-psk-hex
wpa2-leap
wpa2-peap
wpa2-peap-wo-domain
wep-hex
wep-passphrase
wep-shared
leap
ttls
eap
peap
peap-eduroam
peap-tkip
eap-tls
psu


-- debconf information:
* wicd/users:

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