/var/log/kern.log gets spammed with rfkill messages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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urfkill (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
As of today (updated to kernel 3.15.0-6-generic) my utopic based desktop-machine keeps disk i/o busy with writing constantly at about 1 Meg/sec and also spams /var/log/kern.log with:
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Jul 11 14:09:43 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3790.678329] rfkill: input handler enabled
Jul 11 14:09:43 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3790.743970] rfkill: input handler disabled
Jul 11 14:09:44 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3791.476045] rfkill: input handler enabled
Jul 11 14:09:44 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3791.543424] rfkill: input handler disabled
Jul 11 14:09:44 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3792.314127] rfkill: input handler enabled
Jul 11 14:09:44 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3792.379737] rfkill: input handler disabled
Jul 11 14:09:45 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3793.171388] rfkill: input handler enabled
Jul 11 14:09:45 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3793.231092] rfkill: input handler disabled
Jul 11 14:09:46 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3794.027400] rfkill: input handler enabled
Jul 11 14:09:46 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3794.090796] rfkill: input handler disabled
Jul 11 14:09:47 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3794.855748] rfkill: input handler enabled
Jul 11 14:09:47 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3794.922930] rfkill: input handler disabled
Jul 11 14:09:48 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3795.647676] rfkill: input handler enabled
Jul 11 14:09:48 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3795.712540] rfkill: input handler disabled
Jul 11 14:09:49 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3796.502059] rfkill: input handler enabled
Jul 11 14:09:49 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3796.570120] rfkill: input handler disabled
Jul 11 14:09:49 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3797.310477] rfkill: input handler enabled
Jul 11 14:09:49 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3797.365789] rfkill: input handler disabled
Jul 11 14:09:50 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3798.214718] rfkill: input handler enabled
Jul 11 14:09:50 HAL9000 kernel: [ 3798.270505] rfkill: input handler disabled
...
Here's the ouput of iotop:
Total DISK READ : 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE : 72.39 K/s
Actual DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Actual DISK WRITE: 906.83 K/s
TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND
330 be/3 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 98.36 % [jbd2/sda1-8]
It started...
Jul 11 00:47:14 HAL9000 kernel: [ 1315.610925] rfkill: input handler disabled
Jul 11 00:47:15 HAL9000 kernel: [ 1317.065654] rfkill: input handler enabled
Jul 11 00:47:16 HAL9000 kernel: [ 1317.175074] rfkill: input handler disabled
Jul 11 00:47:17 HAL9000 kernel: [ 1318.716811] rfkill: input handler enabled
... and keeps going without interruption.