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How to stop CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE spam in system logs

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I've suddenly realized wpa_supplicant is spamming my system logs with these messages:
Sep 02 08:07:17 elite wpa_supplicant: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-64 noise=9999 txrate=648500
Sep 02 08:07:20 elite wpa_supplicant: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-58 noise=9999 txrate=648500
Sep 02 08:07:23 elite wpa_supplicant: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-58 noise=9999 txrate=648500
Sep 02 08:07:26 elite wpa_supplicant: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-64 noise=9999 txrate=648500
Sep 02 08:07:29 elite wpa_supplicant: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-64 noise=9999 txrate=432300
Sep 02 08:07:32 elite wpa_supplicant: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-63 noise=9999 txrate=432300
Sep 02 08:07:35 elite wpa_supplicant: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-63 noise=9999 txrate=576400
Sep 02 08:07:38 elite wpa_supplicant: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-64 noise=9999 txrate=576400
Sep 02 08:07:41 elite wpa_supplicant: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-64 noise=9999 txrate=576400
Sep 02 08:07:44 elite wpa_supplicant: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-63 noise=9999 txrate=576400
I want this to stop. My WiFi works perfectly but these seemingly debug messages drive me insane and generate over 2GB of disk writes daily. For the past three days:
journalctl | grep CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE | wc -l
24500
I'm using fully updated Fedora 40 with NetworkManager.
Asked by Artem S. Tashkinov (32730 rep)
Sep 2, 2024, 08:17 AM
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