On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 07:45:03AM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Dec 11, 2021, at 23:19, Jon LaBadie jcu@labadie.us wrote:
On my CentOS7 system, I'm getting message sequences in /var/log/message and in the journal that are nearly identical to the sequence below. They come in multiple times per second.
I've deleted the timestamps and system name from the messages.
kernel: floppy0: Getstatus times out (0) on fdc 0 kernel: kernel: floppy driver state kernel: ------------------- kernel: now=4476158515 last interrupt=4476158452 diff=63 last called handler=reset_interrupt [floppy] kernel: timeout_message=floppy start kernel: last output bytes: kernel: 8 81 4388061306 kernel: 3 80 4388061326
...
kernel: 8 80 4476158452 kernel: 12 80 4476158471 kernel: last result at 4476158452 kernel: last redo_fd_request at 4476158471 kernel: status=0 kernel: fdc_busy=1 kernel: timer_function=ffffffffc01daf70 expires=2957 kernel: cont=ffffffffc01dc400 kernel: current_req=ffff9b0e72239c80 kernel: command_status=-1 kernel: I persume something is trying to access the system's floppy disk drive that does not exist. But I have been unable to identify what's triggering all this activity.
Any suggestions?
Any chance you have something like automount/autofs set up with a mountpoint for the floppy device?
— Jonathan Billings
Certainly not intentionally. And nothing in /etc/auto.* to suggest so. Also:
$ systemctl status autofs.service ● autofs.service - Automounts filesystems on demand Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/autofs.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead)
On my two Fedora systems I get "autofs.service not found". Perhaps it is masked there.
Jon