console-kit-deamon warnings filling up syslog file

[Chris Rees]

> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:25:47 -0700
> "David Fox" <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Noticed something going on here over the last few days:
>
> Jun 22 10:21:43 newbox console-kit-daemon[15997]: WARNING: Failed to
> acquire org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit
> Jun 22 10:21:43 newbox console-kit-daemon[15997]: WARNING: Could not
> acquire name; will retry
> Jun 22 10:21:46 newbox console-kit-daemon[15997]: WARNING: Failed to
> acquire org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit
> Jun 22 10:21:46 newbox console-kit-daemon[15997]: WARNING: Could not
> acquire name; will retry
> Jun 22 10:21:49 newbox console-kit-daemon[15997]: WARNING: Failed to
> acquire org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit
> Jun 22 10:21:49 newbox console-kit-daemon[15997]: WARNING: Could not
> acquire name; will retry
> Jun 22 10:21:52 newbox console-kit-daemon[15997]: WARNING: Failed to
> acquire org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit
> Jun 22 10:21:52 newbox console-kit-daemon[15997]: WARNING: Could not
> acquire name; will retry
> Jun 22 10:21:55 newbox console-kit-daemon[15997]: WARNING: Failed to
> acquire org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit
> Jun 22 10:21:55 newbox console-kit-daemon[15997]: WARNING: Could not
> acquire name; will retry
>
> This thing hits my syslog file every 3 seconds, and as a result I have
> a 19 megabyte syslog file.
>
> I noticed this only recently, I think there was an aptitude update on
> console-kit-deamon but I can't find it.
>
> If it's a DNS issue, I don't have trouble navigating to sites etc.
>
> How do I stop the scribbling?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------

You can stop the scribbling by editing syslog.conf... but it looks
like it wants Consolekit.freedesktop.org. Interestingly, it looks like
an endian-ness problem.

The cheap hack for now would be to:

$ sudo -i
# echo org.freedesktop.Consolekit	131.252.210.177 >> /etc/hosts

This will tide you over until the bug report you've (of course) filed
filters through :)