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xorg-server package

Server log fills up with acpid socket errors

Bug #247195 reported by Matt Zimmerman on 2008-07-10

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xorg-server (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Bryce Harrington	Ubuntu intrepid-alpha-5

Bug Description

mizar:[~] ls -lh /var/log/Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23M 2008-07-10 09:14 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
mizar:[~] tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused)
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused)
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused)
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused)
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused)
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused)
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused)
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused)
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused)
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused)
mizar:[~] grep -c acpid.socket /var/log/Xorg.0.log
351357

It seems to retry about once per second indefinitely. I'm not sure why acpid died, and restarting it fixes things, but it seems excessive to retry so often and generate a huge log file.

See original description

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/xorg-server

Matt Zimmerman (mdz) on 2008-07-10

description:

updated

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote on 2008-08-04:

from hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_acpi.c:

/* in milliseconds */
#define ACPI_REOPEN_DELAY 1000

but apparently that's all unnecessary by now, since the xserver should be getting all relevant acpi events from the keyboard, so the acpi-code could be dropped altogether.

Changed in xorg-server:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Confirmed

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Nobu (benjo316) wrote on 2008-08-10:

I'm getting the same thing on Intrepid (8.10) Alpha, except I'm getting about 2 messages every second.

I have 8595 lines and counting and the system's been up for about 3 days. So an average of 30(3*24*60*60/8595) per second.

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Nobu (benjo316) wrote on 2008-08-16:

It seems to have stopped now; My log has no ACPI errors from the 15th(no logs from before then) until today.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote on 2008-08-16: Re: [Bug 247195] Re: Server log fills up with acpid socket errors

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:08:39PM -0000, Nobu wrote:
> It seems to have stopped now; My log has no ACPI errors from the 15th(no
> logs from before then) until today.

Probably your acpid is running again.

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- mdz

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2008-09-01

Changed in xorg-server:
milestone:	none → intrepid-alpha-5
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2008-09-01:

quell_acpi_errmsgs.patch Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain)

What do you guys think about this patch?

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2008-09-01:

Upping priority because while it's just a warning message, the fact that it risks filling up the log file makes it more serious.

Changed in xorg-server:
importance:	Low → Medium

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2008-09-01

Changed in xorg-server:
assignee:	nobody → bryceharrington

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote on 2008-09-02:

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:45:06PM -0000, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington)

I think it should probably reset the count when it successfully connects.

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- mdz

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-09-03:

This bug was fixed in the package xorg-server - 2:1.4.99.906-2ubuntu4

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xorg-server (2:1.4.99.906-2ubuntu4) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Bryce Harrington ]
  * 140_quell_acpid_errmsgs.patch: Don't fill the server log with errors
    from not being able to connect to acpid. (LP: #247195)

-- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:48:24 +0300