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KlutzyKookaburra

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Registered: 2025-05-10

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CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE wpa_supplicant bugfix available

If you search the forums you will see how several people currently have a bunch of wpa_supplicant spam in their system logs.

It looks like this

maj 10 13:21:41 wpa_supplicant[1165]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-55 noise=9999 txrate=720600
maj 10 13:21:44 wpa_supplicant[1165]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-55 noise=9999 txrate=720600
maj 10 13:21:47 wpa_supplicant[1165]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-57 noise=9999 txrate=720600
maj 10 13:21:50 wpa_supplicant[1165]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-57 noise=9999 txrate=720600
maj 10 13:21:53 wpa_supplicant[1165]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-56 noise=9999 txrate=720600
maj 10 13:21:56 wpa_supplicant[1165]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-53 noise=9999 txrate=720600
maj 10 13:21:59 wpa_supplicant[1165]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-55 noise=9999 txrate=720600

This has now finally been fixed upstream.

Can the Arch Linux team please apply the patch or push the latest version of the daemon?

Thanks

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,287

Re: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE wpa_supplicant bugfix available

The patch was commited last december but isn't in any released version.
Since the problem is beyond uncritical, I'd not expect it to be cherry-picked, but this forum is the wrong place for this.
See https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/4

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