Bug 1000709 - Constant reactived 'fprint'
Summary: Constant reactived 'fprint'
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fprintd
Version: 22
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-24 13:13 UTC by Soulkey
Modified: 2016-09-28 20:38 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-07-19 10:18:38 UTC
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Description Soulkey 2013-08-24 13:13:19 UTC
First, hi ! 
Description of problem:

I get this messages in log :

[quote] Aug 24 14:57:49 sK dbus-daemon[550]: dbus[550]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' unit='fprintd.service'
Aug 24 14:57:49 sK dbus[550]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' unit='fprintd.service'
Aug 24 14:57:49 sK systemd[1]: Starting Fingerprint Authentication Daemon...
Aug 24 14:57:49 sK dbus-daemon[550]: dbus[550]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Aug 24 14:57:49 sK dbus[550]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Aug 24 14:57:49 sK systemd[1]: Started Fingerprint Authentication Daemon.
Aug 24 14:57:49 sK fprintd[1973]: Launching FprintObject
Aug 24 14:57:49 sK fprintd[1973]: ** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
Aug 24 14:57:49 sK fprintd[1973]: ** Message: entering main loop
Aug 24 14:58:19 sK fprintd[1973]: ** Message: No devices in use, exit[/quote]

Every 4 minutes for being specific


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 19 upt-to-day


How reproducible:

the message come every 4 minutes.

Steps to Reproduce:

Install fedora..


Additional info:


*I do not have any printer in the network / computers

Getting these message also :

[Quote]
Aug 24 14:53:55 sK fprintd[1291]: ** Message: No devices in use, exit
Aug 24 14:54:14 sK systemd[1]: Started Sendmail Mail Transport Agent.
Aug 24 14:54:14 sK systemd[1]: Starting Sendmail Mail Transport Client...
Aug 24 14:54:57 sK gnome-session[1302]: Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Aug 24 14:54:57 sK gnome-session[1302]: Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!
[/quote]
These message come with the other message, related i think

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2013-08-24 17:24:46 UTC
fprintd == finger print daemon, is used to authenticate users using a finger print reader. It normally is started for interactive authentication, but in your case it is probably being fired by something else. What else happens every four minutes -- do you have e.g. a cron job running then? Also, do you actually have a finger print reader?

Anyway, I think systemd and fprintd to be working as designed here. The question is what is causing fprintd to be started regularly.

Comment 2 Soulkey 2013-08-25 06:41:03 UTC
Aug 25 07:06:17 localhost crond[556]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 65% if used.)
Aug 25 07:06:17 localhost crond[556]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug 25 07:12:49 localhost crond[2712]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 36% if used.)
Aug 25 07:12:49 localhost crond[2712]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug 25 07:12:49 localhost crond[2712]: (CRON) INFO (@reboot jobs will be run at computer's startup.)
Aug 25 07:13:06 localhost crond[2733]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 53% if used.)
Aug 25 07:13:06 localhost crond[2733]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug 25 07:13:06 localhost crond[2733]: (CRON) INFO (@reboot jobs will be run at computer's startup.)
Aug 25 07:19:01 localhost crond[2733]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/cron.d/raid-check)
Aug 25 07:27:08 localhost crond[556]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 22% if used.)
Aug 25 07:27:08 localhost crond[556]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug 25 07:41:53 localhost crond[557]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 37% if used.)
Aug 25 07:41:53 localhost crond[557]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug 25 07:50:39 localhost crond[581]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 28% if used.)
Aug 25 07:50:39 localhost crond[581]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug 25 08:01:01 localhost CROND[2108]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Aug 25 08:01:01 localhost run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[2108]: starting 0anacron
Aug 25 08:01:01 localhost anacron[2144]: Anacron started on 2013-08-25
Aug 25 08:01:01 localhost run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[2146]: finished 0anacron
Aug 25 08:01:01 localhost run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[2108]: starting mcelog.cron
Aug 25 08:01:01 localhost anacron[2144]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 35 min.
Aug 25 08:01:01 localhost anacron[2144]: Will run job `cron.weekly' in 55 min.
Aug 25 08:01:01 localhost anacron[2144]: Will run job `cron.monthly' in 75 min.
Aug 25 08:01:01 localhost anacron[2144]: Jobs will be executed sequentially
Aug 25 08:01:01 localhost run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[2152]: finished mcelog.cron
Aug 25 08:22:51 localhost crond[576]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 71% if used.)
Aug 25 08:22:52 localhost crond[576]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug 25 08:32:21 localhost crond[567]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 3% if used.)
Aug 25 08:32:21 localhost crond[567]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)


This is the cron log, but i didn do anything, i'am in a fresh install :/

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2013-08-26 06:56:16 UTC
reassigning to fprintd

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Comment 5 Jack 2015-02-17 12:53:59 UTC
Indeed, it seems that the intuitive method of disabling fprintd has zero effect.

systemctl stop fprintd
systemctl disable fprintd

Somehow, fprintd is magically restarted by dbus, with resultant system journal spam:

Feb 17 13:49:24 builder1 dbus[617]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' unit='fprintd.service'
Feb 17 13:49:24 builder1 dbus[617]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Feb 17 13:49:24 builder1 fprintd[2429]: Launching FprintObject
Feb 17 13:49:24 builder1 fprintd[2429]: ** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
Feb 17 13:49:24 builder1 fprintd[2429]: ** Message: entering main loop

It would be nice to have some indication of how to disable this.  

Furthermore, it hardly seems sensible to enable a fingerprint reader module by default.  The default should be disabled, since really, very few weenies rely upon fingerprint readers.

Comment 6 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 15:00:25 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 10:18:38 UTC
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Comment 8 caroline 2016-09-28 20:38:53 UTC
Hello, 

We solve this problem by commenting the lines that references the fingerprint on files /etc/pam.d/fingerprint-auth and /etc/pam.d/gdm-fingerprint.


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