Bug 25706

Summary: Virtual terminals flooded with audit and net-fw messages
Product: Mageia Reporter: Matteo Pasotti <matteo.pasotti>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: tmb
Version: 7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Matteo Pasotti 2019-11-18 08:46:01 CET 
Description of problem:
After a fresh installation of Mageia 7.1 the virtual terminals from 2 to 6 are flooded with audit and net-fw messages.

Trying to mitigate specifing inside /etc/sysctl.conf adding the line
kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3
doesn't seem to be the right solution because vt it's still receving a lot of those messages.

This configuration also makes difficult to read the output of dmesg.

How reproducible:
Fresh installation of mageia 7 x86_64 using default configuration plus activating the firewall.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. login as user or root from a virtual terminal from 2 to 6 (activated by default)
2. experience those messages
Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2019-11-18 10:18:45 CET 
You seem to be missing "silent" from kernel command line.

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2019-11-18 10:19:22 CET 
And if you dont want audit logs, also add "audit=0"
Comment 3 Lewis Smith 2019-11-18 20:27:08 CET 
@Matteo : does DE-activating the firewall make any difference?

Can we leave this with you, Thomas, since you have already fielded it?

Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Comment 4 Matteo Pasotti 2019-11-25 19:42:38 CET 
(In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #3)
> @Matteo : does DE-activating the firewall make any difference?
Sure it does buy, I do want to preserve my firewall active.

> 
> Can we leave this with you, Thomas, since you have already fielded it?

The solution provided by Thomas solved my problem, I think silent suddenly disappeared while trying to address a problem with the radeon driver.

Marking as resolved.

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED