Same here, LinuxMint KDE 17 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34)
Jul 13 23:58:17 dell wpa_supplicant[920]: wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED Jul 13 23:58:18 dell wpa_supplicant[920]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33 Jul 14 00:00:17 dell wpa_supplicant[920]: wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED Jul 14 00:00:18 dell wpa_supplicant[920]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to wpa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323089 Title: wpa_supplicant writes to syslog every 2 minutes Status in “wpa” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS wpasupplicant 2.1-0ubuntu1 wpa_supplicant is writing to syslog every couple of minutes. Example output: May 25 19:57:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED May 25 19:57:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33 May 25 19:59:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED May 25 19:59:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33 May 25 20:00:58 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED May 25 20:01:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED May 25 20:01:24 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33 May 25 20:03:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED May 25 20:03:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33 May 25 20:05:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED May 25 20:05:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33 May 25 20:05:58 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED May 25 20:07:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED May 25 20:07:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33 May 25 20:09:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED May 25 20:09:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33 May 25 20:10:58 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED May 25 20:13:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: message repeated 2 times: [ wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED ] May 25 20:13:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211: send_and_recv->nl_recvmsgs failed: -33 The message seems harmless as far as the network is concerned, meaning there is no problem with the wifi connection. But it's spamming the syslog, making it very difficult to find any other thing there, and it's generating constant writes to disk, and an unnecessarily large syslog file. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/1323089/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
