Description of problem: The killswitch error message is repeating every few seconds. This is way too much. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: I'll open a separate entry with the hardware details. This bug is strictly to see if the error message frequency could be reduced to a reasonable level. Jun 28 08:24:40 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.UnknownError - An Error occurred. The Error message is: Could not open file /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data. Check that dcdbas driver is properly loaded. Jun 28 08:24:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.UnknownError - An Error occurred. The Error message is: Could not open file /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data. Check that dcdbas driver is properly loaded. Jun 28 08:24:53 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.UnknownError - An Error occurred. The Error message is: Could not open file /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data. Check that dcdbas driver is properly loaded. Jun 28 08:24:59 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.UnknownError - An Error occurred. The Error message is: Could not open file /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data. Check that dcdbas driver is properly loaded.
Similar message started appearing recently: Aug 9 06:17:24 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Aug 9 06:18:25 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 10 times Aug 9 06:19:31 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 11 times Have a logfile full of them. Anyway to stop them? Flipping the wireless kill switch to 'kill wireless' and then back to 'allow wireless' results in: Aug 9 06:17:24 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Aug 9 06:18:25 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 10 times Aug 9 06:19:31 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 11 times Aug 9 06:20:37 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 11 times Aug 9 06:21:43 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 11 times Aug 9 06:17:24 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Aug 9 06:21:54 localhost ntpd[2421]: synchronized to 193.11.184.180, stratum 2 Aug 9 06:21:56 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Aug 9 06:23:02 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 11 times Aug 9 06:24:08 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 11 times Aug 9 06:25:11 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 10 times Aug 9 06:25:11 localhost kernel: iwl3945: Unhandled INTA bits 0x04000000 Aug 9 06:25:11 localhost kernel: iwl3945: Disabled INTA bits 0x04000000 were pending Aug 9 06:25:11 localhost kernel: iwl3945: with FH_INT = 0x00000000 Aug 9 06:25:11 localhost kernel: iwl3945: ipw going down Aug 9 06:25:11 localhost kernel: iwl3945: Unhandled INTA bits 0x04000000 Aug 9 06:25:11 localhost kernel: iwl3945: Disabled INTA bits 0x04000000 were pending Aug 9 06:25:11 localhost kernel: iwl3945: with FH_INT = 0x00000000 Aug 9 06:25:11 localhost kernel: iwl3945: Unhandled INTA bits 0x04000000 Aug 9 06:25:11 localhost kernel: iwl3945: Disabled INTA bits 0x04000000 were pending Aug 9 06:25:11 localhost kernel: iwl3945: with FH_INT = 0x00000000 Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost kernel: wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs' Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost kernel: usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'iwl3945'. Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost NetworkManager: <info> nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost NetworkManager: <info> nm_device_init(): device's worker thread started, continuing. Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'wlan0'. Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Deactivating device wlan0. Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost NetworkManager: <info> nm-netlink-monitor.c - nm_netlink_monitor_event_handler (724) netlink reports device wlan0 link now 1 Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost NetworkManager: <info> nm-netlink-monitor.c - nm_netlink_monitor_event_handler (724) netlink reports device wlan0 link now 0 Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost kernel: usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost kernel: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11 Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 31 Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost kernel: Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost kernel: Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost kernel: Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9 Aug 9 06:25:12 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver hci_usb Aug 9 06:25:14 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported
I get these all the time on a F-7 system too: Aug 13 13:11:01 moa NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.UnknownError - An Error occurred. The Error message is: Could not open file /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data. Check that dcdbas driver is properly loaded.
Running latest Rawhide (2.6.23-0.174.rc6.fc8), the message has morphed a bit: Sep 12 07:23:46 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - hal-ipw-killswitch-linux returned 255 Sep 12 07:24:52 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 11 times Sep 12 07:25:53 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 10 times Sep 12 07:26:59 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 11 times Sep 12 07:28:05 localhost NetworkManager:last message repeated 11 times I continue to get hundreds of these (about 10 per minute).
Morphed again: Sep 19 13:32:00 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Error getting killswitch power arguments: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs - Argument 0 is specified to be of type "uint32", but is actually of type "int32"#012
I now see: Nov 18 16:29:57 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ipw_wlan_switch Close?
fixed upstream for a while in 0.7; just committed a fix to upstream 0.6.x for this as well