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Re: continual acpid and gdm3 messages in syslog



On 2017-04-27 19:48 +0100, Ron Leach wrote:

> Syslog is logging thousands of reports that I've not seen before, and
> I wonder if anybody on the list could advise how I should deal with
> these reports.
>
> In syslog there are pretty much continuous messages (extract below)
> issued by acpid and gdm.  The gdm3 message warns that GdmDisplay is
> lasting a very short time.  The machine's raid1 array redundancy is
> being recovered, and to do a disc replacement I took the machine
> offline onto a workbench where it does not have a screen or
> keyboard. (Controlling via ssh.)  The machine is an older server,
> still running D6/Squeeze.
>
> If the problem is because there is no screen connected, is there
> anything I could arrange so that neither acpid nor gdm3 keep warning
> about this?

How about just stopping these services?  You probably don't need a
display manager at the moment, so "service gdm3 stop" gets rid of the
gdm3 syslog spam, and hopefully of acpid's too.

Cheers,
       Sven


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