Questions tagged [syslog]

Syslog is a protocol designed to relay system event messages. Questions related to syslog involve event notification and logging capabilities.

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How to diagnose/stop gdm-x-session spamming syslog

[Note: this is similar to issue #418 in the gnome gitlab but it happens to me constantly and I'm not running Evolution. I filed this there too, but gnome 3.28.2 is no longer supported there.] I'm not ...
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Should gnome be producing so much syslog activity?

$ cut -d' ' -f5 /var/log/syslog.1 | sed -e 's/\[.*//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 1 colord 1 cracklib: 1 update-notifier.desktop 2 avahi-daemon 2 gsd-color 3 dhclient 5 PackageKit: ...
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Syslog filling up with "radeon crtc page flip" only on Ubuntu 16.04 Unity Desktop

I'm having this issue when trying to run Ubuntu 16.04 and logging in to the Unity Desktop. I'm getting megabytes in minutes into the syslog file. Unity appears to be working correctly, however if left ...
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Discord (among others) filling syslog. Is there a privacy preserving solution yet?

Discord is constantly spamming the system for a ptrace read that is being repeatedly denied by AppArmor/Snap. This happens for good reason as it is intended to find what games you might be playing. ...
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syslog is filled with IPv6: MLD: clamping QRV from 1 to 2!

My /var/log/syslog file is taking a lot of space and getting filled with an error message IPv6: MLD: clamping QRV from 1 to 2! and lots of other messages. How can I find out what's causing this ...
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syslog flooded with messages "wlp16s0: Failed check-sdata-in-driver check, flags: 0x4"

I've got an old laptop with Lubuntu 18.04 that I use from time to time. I noticed that sometimes it gets unresponsive and fan runs at max speed, and the syslog becomes huge, the only way to stop it is ...
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Syslog and kern.log keeps filling up and network stops working

The syslog and kern.log files keep filling in my system and it seems that the network (wifi stops working, not able to connect to VPN, etc) stops working. Reading the logs it seems like some network ...
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Massive log files on Ubuntu 16.04

I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04. For some reason I have massive log files. For example: kern.log is 10.5 GB big and syslog is 152 MB. I already tried rotating them, but I wanna know what's making ...
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syslog and kern.log multiple GB in size filled with pcieport error messages

After getting a disk usage warning, I noticed my syslog and kern.log were multiple GBs in size (20GB each). I then used this askubuntu post to clear the log files but today I find that they have again ...
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14.04 upgrade: sysklogd disappeared without replacement!

I just upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04 with do-release-upgrade and I lost my syslog daemon in the proceedings. klogd and sysklogd were removed without any replacement functionality being installed. (I ...
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My cpus are powered down periodically

I post here because I am using Ubuntu but this is probably an hardware problem. Since I bought my new setup with AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 635 Processor and asus m4a89td pro/usb3 motherboard with ecc ram I ...
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Syslog/kernlog filling up with "did not claim interface N before use"

As I discovered when asking this question, it appears that demond_nscan is trying to use a device without claiming it. And it does it.... hundreds of time per second apparently. This makes kern.log ...
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syslog very large, full of "Object St.DrawingArea has been already disposed error

I found my root partition quickly (lets say daily, even hourly) full. took a look at the syslog and it was 18GB in size. took a look inside and it was full of two errors, one related to a specific ...
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CRON/crontab does not log errors?

Is there a way to see if there are any errors when crontab job is executed? I purposely added a command that returns error so I can check if I'm able to see the error. */1 * * * * cd /home/...
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System restarted after 15 mins of screen-sharing in Zoom

Laptop: ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 OS: Ubuntu 21.04 Kernel: 5.12.19 Nvidia driver version: 460.91.03 syslog in time of restart: Dec 7 17:12:01 cyber kernel: [30576.847272] usb usb4-port2: Cannot enable. ...
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Unexpected restart of Ubuntu 18.04

Last few days I have many unexpected reboots of my Ubuntu 18.04. Visual effects: – work as usual (docker, intelliJ, firefox) – unexpected halt – fans goes crazy – push restart button – PC start ...
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journalctl missing cron entries that show up in syslog

I have cron set up to log start (CMD) and end (END) of all cron jobs along with the process number (setting up cron to use -L 11 option). All entries are showing up in /var/log/syslog, such as: Aug 26 ...
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Process '/bin/chmod 0666 ' failed with exit code 1

My syslog is filled with this message, and when it triggers it adds about 100 lines a second. Any way I can try to figure out what is causing it? Extraction of what it looks like Dec 17 17:33:28 ...
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Faulty usb device: how to disable to get rid of dmesg errors

I bought a second hand computer, which seems to have a faulty USB port (or something - I haven't encountered it). The only real annoyance is that my syslogs are spammed with the same messages: [...
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WARNING **: Sink input info callback : SINK INPUT INFO IS NULL or our user_data is not what we think it should be

could someone please explain to me what this means? It appeared in my syslog after what I can only describe as an "analogy sounding pig noise" came over my speakers. I recently installed ubuntu 16.04 ...
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What is causing (gnome-shell:3120): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_layout_manager_get_child_meta: assertion 'CLUTTER_IS_LAYOUT_MANAGER (manager)' failed

chris@localhost:/var/log$ lsb_release -crid Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial chris@localhost:/var/log$ apt-cache policy gnome-shell gnome-...
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"VCE not responding, trying to reset the ECPU" presented at boot

When booting, I see the errors below. I have an HP laptop with an AMD CPU. I can link the model number if that would be useful. Given that it mentions Radeon, I'm assuming this has something to do ...
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Is it safe to stop thermald on my desktop PC?

I have thermald running on my desktop PC, which is an older Xeon with 4 cores. thermald pollutes the /var/log/syslog file on my 15.04. (See this related question, How to quiet Ubuntu 15.04 noisy ...
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syslog error message eating up my HD with wireless message

I received a message that I ran out of space on my hard drive, so I deleted a few things, large games I never played, etc, a few hours later, I got the same message, so I deleted a few more large ...
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How to send dhcpd lease & MAC address info to central syslog server?

I am looking to send dhcpd leases including MAC address info etc. to my remote central syslog server, the server running dhcpd is running syslog-ng...would someone be so gracious as to assist me with ...
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How to send DHCPD leases to remote syslog-ng

I want to query a DHCP server for logs about leased IP’s every 5 minutes. I am not sure how to run the query from my server or which file to edit. The queried logs will be sent to the server ...
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How I can connect the syslog-ng with a mysql database?

Hi guys I want to use a syslog-ng server for logging data from the firewall and I get Data from the Firewall in the file /var/firewall.log but now I want that the logs go to a database. For this I ...
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Which logs will tell me about the Touchpad and Keyboard locking up?

I have an Asus N53SM laptop that I leave running for several weeks at a time. I never put it in hibernate or suspend, I only close the lid when I'm not using it. After a few days or weeks of running, ...
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Logrotate.service failed - syslog and boot.log not getting populated - Ubuntu Server 20.04

Got a new server and installed Ubuntu server 20.04 on it yesterday. Everything was working properly yesterday. Shutdown the server in the night and started it today. Found out syslog and boot.log ...
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i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] *ERROR* Atomic update failure on pipe A

This is an error against the internal Intel i915 VGA video card. I see the error on a daily basis in syslog, even though I use the Nvidia card in my system. To see if you have the problem, do the ...
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Consecutive networkd-dispatcher error messages for virtual Docker interfaces

My question is much like the issue described here, except I'm using an LXC of Ubuntu 23.04. In that answer, it was marked as solved because I guess the networkd-dispatcher service was patched. However,...
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Syslog is flooded by ACPI error induced by kernel

I am using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (kernel version 5.15.0) on Dell Inspiron 15 5510, and I found that the battery lifetime became significantly shorter since some time this month. Sometimes the computer ...
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Ubuntu PC Shutting down overnight - Firefox snap?

The last few nights my PC (running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) has been shutting down between 11pm and midnight for reasons I do not understand so looked at syslog. This is I think the relevant part: Nov 6 23:...
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Transmission GTK errors - syslog contains millions (literally) of errors daily and in app labels and layouts regularly become confused

I have transmission running on this computer loading at startup. I am running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and have installed latest updates. When I access the app to inspect torrent properties the labels on the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS> system shuts down error: syslog question

Computer is shutting down frequently, found this in syslog: Oct 15 17:27:43 d01 systemd[2527]: Requested transaction contradicts existing jobs: Transaction for graphical-session.target/stop is ...
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ubuntu 20.04 sensors ( lm-sensor ) to syslog - Missing sensord

I found an article about sensord missing from v20.04.From a while ago called what is the new equiv of sensord. In it there is a comment : On Ubuntu 20.04 it is also missing. It's not in lm-sensors and ...
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Spurious timeout before allowing me to log in or authenticate for sudo

Soemtimes when I use sudo at the command line, nothing happens for 20+ seconds. After that, the desired things happens, which is that I am told to swipe my finger on the fingerprint reader or, if that ...
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RSyslog CPU usage > 100%

We currently have RSyslog Server (On Linux Ubuntu 18.04 VM LTA with Size: Standard D4s v3 4 vcpus, 16 GiB memory) receiving logs from ZScaler Proxy & FortiGate Firewalls and ingesting them into ...
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Logrotate syslog and mysql error

OS version: 20.04 When trying to manually logrotate, there are errors rotating syslog and mysql. ~$ sudo logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf error: rsyslog:4 unknown unit 'e' error: found error in /var/...
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How to understand the log entries in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages?

I got this log file entries which I think are from either /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages file for analysis. I'm trying to find what each column means. I searched around and found very few ...
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Messages about invalid attributes in /etc/fonts/conf.d

I installed Ubuntu 21.10 and changed from gnome desktop to mate desktop. Now I get the following type of messages in /var/logs/syslog. How can I get rid of them? Jan 10 15:34:40 media rtkit-daemon[...
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How do I prevent broadcast messages to console for specific application?

I am running NUT UPS Tools server on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS system. I have to resart the NUT driver every 15 minutes, and each time it restarts the upsmon application broadcasts a message to the console: ...
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Syslog : I am trying to generate separate iptables.log file for IPTABLES,

My Ubuntu 20.4 LTS My efforts are as follows:- 1.) Created IPTABLES rules with LOGGING by mentioning --log-prefix="IPTABLES-BLOCKED: " Logs are successfully generated by iptables, I have ...
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Help! Ubuntu 20.04 Server is printing kernel messages to my console

after setting up a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 server, exactly every 5 minutes and 11 seconds my console shows the following message, which is printed above everything on the screen: Message from ...
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syslog spammed by tracker-miner-f(s) errors

I did tail -f /var/log/syslog, and I'm noticing these errrors every minute: Jan 11 13:06:34 Waveserver tracker-miner-f[2209925]: Set scheduler policy to SCHED_IDLE Jan 11 13:06:34 Waveserver tracker-...
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nouveau filling syslog on Ubuntu Server 20.04

I just had 50GBs worth of logs shipped to my ELK stack (sadly expensive). They are all from the same Ubuntu 20.04 Server, with a GTX 1660 installed. This server does not have X11 installed. I am using ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 crashed with a black screen using livepatch

For the second time in a week I found my Ubuntu 18.04 with a black screen in the morning. When I look in the syslog I see the PC crashed on 6:45 running livepatch. After get-updates the log shows only ...
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Constantly increasing size of syslog} Why I have(had) very large size of /var/log?

I am on Ubuntu 18.04 I was constantly getting Filesystem.root not enough space warnings. So, I searched on the web a little bit and learned how to inspect disk usage by, sudo baobab Then I saw that,...
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My system is creating 1GB of syslog file Docker errors per minute

I am using Ubuntu 18.04. Recently whenever I start my PC, I get a error message saying 0 bytes left in your /root directory. I used the du command and found out that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/...
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Syslog-ng broken/won't install after 16.04 > 18.04 dist upgrade

I recently upgraded my Ubuntu Server 16.04 VM to 18.04. After the upgrade, syslog-ng was failing to start, so I purged it and tried reinstalling it. Every time I go to reinstall it, I get the "//...
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