Help, my syslog is growing

[Colin Law]

On 3 January 2015 at 01:57, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm getting a fair amount of stuff like this in my syslog:
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> Jan  2 07:56:53 treat dbus[803]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' (using servicehelper)
> Jan  2 07:56:53 treat dbus[803]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' failed: Cannot launch daemon, file not found or permissions invalid
> Jan  2 07:58:53 treat dbus[803]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' (using servicehelper)
> Jan  2 07:58:53 treat dbus[803]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' failed: Cannot launch daemon, file not found or permissions invalid
> Jan  2 08:00:53 treat dbus[803]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' (using servicehelper)
> Jan  2 08:00:53 treat dbus[803]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' failed: Cannot launch daemon, file not found or permissions invalid
>
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> Now I don't have or want a modem.
> How do I make this shut up, so I can pay attention to the important stuff?

Start by subscribing yourself to this bug [1], assuming that you think
it is the same issue, then you will know when it is fixed.  If you
find a workaround then add it to the bug comments.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/modemmanager/+bug/1330239

Colin