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Re: Log flooding: Oct 28 11:44:21 localhost kernel: [ 3348.008429] option: option_instat_callback: error -2



On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 02:09:36PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> 
> > Hi Folks, 
> > 
> > since some time my logs are flooded with the folowwing message:
> > 
> > Oct 28 11:45:09 localhost kernel: [ 3395.992226] option: 
> > option_instat_callback: error -2
> > Oct 28 11:45:14 localhost kernel: [ 3401.009057] option: 
> > option_instat_callback: error -2
> > Oct 28 11:45:19 localhost kernel: [ 3406.008941] option: 
> > option_instat_callback: error -2
> > 
> > and so on.
> > 
> > I cannot find the reason for it. Everything is working fine, but in the console 
> > it is just annoying. Is there something known about this behaviour?

According to a quick search, this appears to be a USB issue (mostly
people with 3G dongles are reporting the error. If possible, try the
latest (stable) kernel and see if it resolves the issue.

> > 
> > My system: Debian/wheezy  32-bit, EEEPC 1005HGO.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Hans
> > 
> Doesn't Linux have a syslog program that just appends subsequent time 
> stamps to duplicate messages so the message appears once with a count of 
> occurrences after it and each of the time stamps appears indented off the 
> left margin?  If not, that might be a useful one to write.

It has two that I know of. The old sysklogd does this by default; the
new default syslog server, rsyslog, can also do this, but it isn't
enabled by default.

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