Bug 107532

Summary:	'nmcli radio wifi' flooding syslog
Product:	PolicyKit	Reporter:	NJ <najoll>
Component:	libpolkit	Assignee:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	contact+freedesktop
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description NJ 2018-08-09 05:02:06 UTC

'nmcli radio wifi' flooding syslog

I have a script that runs mult
iple times a minute and which checks for wifi connectivity. It does the check by running, as a normal user, this: 'nmcli radio wifi'. The command seems to work but my syslog fills up with this sort of thing:

<warn>  [1533789057.9698] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network: Authorization check failed: Failed to open file “/proc/24332/status”: No such file or directory

<warn>  [1533789057.9701] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep-wake: Authorization check failed: Failed to open file “/proc/24332/status”: No such file or directory

<warn>  [1533789057.9705] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi: Authorization check failed: Failed to open file “/proc/24332/status”: No such file or directory

<warn>  [1533789057.9708] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wwan: Authorization check failed: Failed to open file “/proc/24332/status”: No such file or directory

I have a vpn but I get the above messages even when the VPN is off.

Perhaps the following is relevant too.

$  nmcli general permissions
PERMISSION                                                        VALUE 
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network             yes   
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wifi                yes   
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wwan                yes   
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-wimax               yes   
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.sleep-wake                         no    
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control                    yes   
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected               yes   
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open                    yes   
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system             yes   
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own                yes   
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hostname           auth  
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.global-dns         auth  
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.reload                             auth  
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.checkpoint-rollback                auth  
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-statistics          yes   
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-connectivity-check  yes 

Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon
Kernel: 4.17.13-041713-generic
mate-polkit 1.20.0-1 (if this is the relevant package)

Comment 1 contact+freedesktop 2018-08-14 04:31:02 UTC

I have the same problem. I also have a script running, but mine calls `nmcli connection show`. Identical journal logs and identical output for `nmcli general permissions`.

Fedora 28 x64
4.17.12-200
NetworkManager 1.10.10
polkit-0.115-1
polkit-gnome-0.106-0.2.20170423gita0763a2

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-20 21:34:08 UTC

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