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/var/log/kern.log gets spammed with rfkill messages

Bug #1340710 reported by Mirco Müller
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urfkill (Ubuntu)
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Medium
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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:

...
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]

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote :

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.

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote :

Could you please attach /var/log/syslog? This should include sufficient data to figure out what is the cause of the problem.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Incomplete
importance: Undecided → Medium
affects: ubuntu → urfkill (Ubuntu)
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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote :
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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package urfkill - 0.6.0~20140708.110711.a0581f3-0ubuntu2

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urfkill (0.6.0~20140708.110711.a0581f3-0ubuntu2) utopic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/ignore_input_monitor_startup.patch: don't fail startup if
    the input device monitor fails to start. (LP: #1340710)
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:33:33 -0400

Changed in urfkill (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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