On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 10:20 AM Frank beacon@videotron.ca wrote:
I noticed this morning that network manager is spamming my log with messages repeated every 3 or 4 seconds.
Jun 06 11:58:22 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[787]: <info> [1622995102.8297] policy: set-hostname: current hostname was changed outside NetworkManager: fedora
Jun 06 11:58:22 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[787]: <info> [1622995102.8299] policy: set-hostname: set hostname to localhost.localdomain (from address lookup)
It repeats these messages every 3 or 4 seconds.
This apparently has been going on for a few days at least.
There is a bug 1894137 - But it was filed last November.
Also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1893223, filed last October. And see:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/...
For me, running "hostnamectl" showed that the static hostname was "localhost" and the transient hostname was "fedora", apparently because somebody thought the latter was a good idea. The nonmatching hostnames triggered NetworkManager to spam the logs, which is the second bug. Both should be fixed, but the fact that nobody is paying attention to bugs filed last fall is not encouraging.
The workaround I resorted to was to use hostnamectl to make the static and transient hostnames match.