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kox

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Registered: 2015-05-01

Posts: 146

Journal is flooded with 'atieventsd xauth: file list does not exist'

My journal is flooded with these warnings. Each second a new line is added, it looks like this:

Jun 27 10:56:51 new-host.home atieventsd[324]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 27 10:56:52 new-host.home atieventsd[324]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 27 10:56:54 new-host.home atieventsd[324]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 27 10:56:55 new-host.home atieventsd[324]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 27 10:56:56 new-host.home atieventsd[324]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 27 10:56:57 new-host.home atieventsd[324]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 27 10:56:58 new-host.home atieventsd[324]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 27 10:56:59 new-host.home atieventsd[324]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 27 10:57:00 new-host.home atieventsd[324]: xauth:  file list does not exist

My gpu is Radeon HD 4850, I use Catalyst legacy drivers for this along with Xorg 1.12, as later versions don't support this driver. I don't have any problems, but I certainly don't want to have this warning saved to the journal every second.

I use lxdm for display manager. I tried switching to another one, but there are errors with lightdm and gdm3 hangs the system on boot (no output, just waiting.)

There's nothing on Google. I only found this, which is my exact problem http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … journalctl but there's no solution.

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

Posts: 258

Re: Journal is flooded with 'atieventsd xauth: file list does not exist'

systemctl --failed

and investigate if you need really need that service and installed all required stuff like acpid
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AM … sd.service

to simply stop the flood

sudo systemctl disable atieventsd
sudo systemctl stop atieventsd

kox

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Registered: 2015-05-01

Posts: 146

Re: Journal is flooded with 'atieventsd xauth: file list does not exist'

But is it safe to disable it? I searched and I only found out that this is for power management. But what does power management exactly mean? Wouldn't disabling it cause my graphics card run hotter?

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

Posts: 258

Re: Journal is flooded with 'atieventsd xauth: file list does not exist'

post the result of

pacman -Qs acpid

and

systemctl status -l atieventsd

kox

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Registered: 2015-05-01

Posts: 146

Re: Journal is flooded with 'atieventsd xauth: file list does not exist'

I installed and enabled acpid recently, thinking it might solve the problem. Both services are running now:

[root@new-host maciek]# pacman -Qs acpid
local/acpid 2.0.23-4
    A daemon for delivering ACPI power management events with netlink support
[root@new-host maciek]# systemctl status -l atieventsd
● atieventsd.service - Catalyst event Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/atieventsd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2015-06-29 16:29:49 CEST; 11min ago
 Main PID: 326 (atieventsd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/atieventsd.service
           └─326 /usr/bin/atieventsd --nodaemon

Jun 29 16:41:38 new-host.home atieventsd[326]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 29 16:41:39 new-host.home atieventsd[326]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 29 16:41:41 new-host.home atieventsd[326]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 29 16:41:42 new-host.home atieventsd[326]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 29 16:41:43 new-host.home atieventsd[326]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 29 16:41:44 new-host.home atieventsd[326]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 29 16:41:45 new-host.home atieventsd[326]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 29 16:41:46 new-host.home atieventsd[326]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 29 16:41:47 new-host.home atieventsd[326]: xauth:  file list does not exist
Jun 29 16:41:48 new-host.home atieventsd[326]: xauth:  file list does not exist
[root@new-host maciek]# systemctl status -l acpid
● acpid.service - ACPI event daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/acpid.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2015-06-29 16:29:49 CEST; 12min ago
     Docs: man:acpid(8)
 Main PID: 325 (acpid)
   CGroup: /system.slice/acpid.service
           └─325 /usr/bin/acpid --foreground --netlink

Jun 29 16:29:49 localhost systemd[1]: Started ACPI event daemon.
Jun 29 16:29:49 localhost systemd[1]: Starting ACPI event daemon...
Jun 29 16:29:49 localhost acpid[325]: starting up with netlink and the input layer
Jun 29 16:29:49 localhost acpid[325]: 3 rules loaded
Jun 29 16:29:49 localhost acpid[325]: waiting for events: event logging is off
Jun 29 16:29:50 localhost acpid[325]: client connected from 326[0:0]
Jun 29 16:29:50 localhost acpid[325]: 1 client rule loaded
Jun 29 16:29:52 localhost acpid[325]: client connected from 708[0:0]
Jun 29 16:29:52 localhost acpid[325]: 1 client rule loaded

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

Posts: 258

Re: Journal is flooded with 'atieventsd xauth: file list does not exist'

Might be best/quicker to ask Vi0l0 on his aur page for the package you installed

example:
catalyst-total-pxp

P.S.

you will need an AUR login id as it is not the same as the forums

Last edited by Malkymder (2015-06-29 15:15:04)