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mmb999
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/var/log/messages has tons of these messages - help!

Post by mmb999 » 2019/01/04 18:18:32

Hi all, I have literally hundreds of the following messages in my /var/log/messages file.

Jan 3 20:32:18 localhost journal: g_simple_action_set_enabled: assertion 'G_IS_SIMPLE_ACTION (simple)' failed

I've tried to locate the root cause online but haven't been able to find anything.

I'm running a basic file server (new install of latest OS version) with standard services like smb, nmb, xrdp, etc.

Does anyone know what is causing them or how to turn them off?

Thanks in advance!

mike

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Re: /var/log/messages has tons of these messages - help!

Post by mmb999 » 2019/01/07 17:24:38

Ignore this, seems to be a gnome desktop environment bug as others have reported.

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Re: /var/log/messages has tons of these messages - help!

Post by MartinR » 2019/01/24 18:02:11

I've just had this message and it is associated with a loss of focus. The screen saver cut in and mouse clicks are ignored. CTRL-ALT-F2 gives me a tty prompt, and I can ssh in so the system hasn't frozen. Any suggestions?

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Re: /var/log/messages has tons of these messages - help!

Post by mbkuz » 2019/01/26 10:00:40

I also think that it's some gnome desktop problem. I'm going to ask a question here later. I also receive such messages, but these are only part (probably not the main) of messages, probably related to problems. The only way working for me is
#systemctl isolate multi-user.target
and then again
#systemctl isolate graphical.target

Mikhail

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Re: /var/log/messages has tons of these messages - help!

Post by MartinR » 2019/01/26 13:06:24

I'll try that in future. To free things up I eventually used kill -KILL on the session.:lol: Then I had to explain to the user why she should save her work regularly, particularly if doing a lot of work in Writer under time pressure.:twisted:

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Re: /var/log/messages has tons of these messages - help!

Post by desertcat » 2019/01/26 22:58:21

mmb999 wrote:
2019/01/07 17:24:38
Ignore this, seems to be a gnome desktop environment bug as others have reported.
Maybe, maybe not. It may not be so much the DE as it is the DM, in this case gdm. I'd install lightdm and drop gdm in the nearest trash bin (figuratively not literally). gdm is a giant PITA which has resulted in runaway processes. If you switch to lightdm the runaway processes stop. So YES it *could* be a bug in GNOME, OTOH it could be some strange interaction between GNOME and gdm. Lightdm is a far superior dm than gdm. Try it and see if you still have the same problem. At worse you get a far better dm than gdm without the runaway processes associated with gdm.

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Re: /var/log/messages has tons of these messages - help!

Post by mbkuz » 2019/01/27 10:38:27

FYI: maybe this is other problem with 7.6 distribution for AMD Radeon Controller ?
If you use it, see "Problem in CentOS 7.6 w/GUI" messages here - then among these messages is a possible answer.

Mikhail

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Re: /var/log/messages has tons of these messages - help!

Post by TrevorH » 2019/01/27 15:00:09

Since this doesn't appear to be progressing very fast, if at all, in any of the bug reports upstream on bugzilla.redhat.com, I have a suggestion which doesn't help to fix the problem but might help with the symptom. How about telling rsyslog not to log that stuff?

There is a current rsyslog config file around that stops it from logging lots of the systemd crap, like this:

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# cat /etc/rsyslog.d/ignore-systemd-session-slice.conf
if $programname == "systemd" and ($msg contains "Starting Session" or $msg contains "Started Session" or $msg contains "Created slice" or $msg contains "Starting user-" or $msg contains "Removed slice" or $msg contains "Stopping user") then stop
I'll leave amending that as an exercise for the reader. Once done, reload rsyslog, let it deal with it until RH come up with a fix or 7.7 drops and fixes it.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Use the FAQ Luke

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Re: /var/log/messages has tons of these messages - help!

Post by liujun » 2019/04/15 02:56:33

Fixed In Version: nautilus-3.26.3.1-5.el7
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1594177

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