Bug 748175 - polkitd is flooding log
Summary: polkitd is flooding log
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: polkit
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: David Zeuthen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-22 19:02 UTC by Yann Droneaud
Modified: 2013-03-06 04:08 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-10-24 14:08:11 UTC
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2011-10-22 19:03 UTC, Yann Droneaud 		no flags Details
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Description Yann Droneaud 2011-10-22 19:02:59 UTC 
After booting Fedora-16-TC-x86_64-Live-Desktop, /var/log/messages is flooded by polkitd messages:

Oct 22 13:32:04 localhost rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 855 due to rate-limiting
Oct 22 13:32:07 localhost rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock lost 94 messages from pid 855 due to rate-limiting

After boot, /var/log/messages is about 250KBytes !

See attachment 529629 [details] on bug 748171.
Comment 1 Yann Droneaud 2011-10-22 19:03:43 UTC 
Created attachment 529630 [details]
/var/log/messages
Comment 2 David Zeuthen 2011-10-24 14:08:11 UTC 
Technically this is because of the bad decision made by the systemd developers to redirect stdout/stderr to syslog ... but perhaps you will be pleased to know this is already fixed in polkit-0.102-2.fc16

 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-14581
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