i’ve disabled the annoying audit-service because it’s spamming the dmesg-queue but even with disabled service it still spams up the queue.
what’s wrong with this os ?
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/auditd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:auditd(8)
https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-documentationFrom Audit framework - ArchWiki
Note: In order to disable audit completely and suppress audit messages from appearing in journal you may set
audit=0as kernel parameter and/or masksystemd-journald-audit.socket.
i remember, i already did that and updated grub. here’s my grub
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Manjaro"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="apparmor=1 security=apparmor usbcore.autosuspend=-1 nvidia-drm.modeset=1 video=HDMI-0 btusb.enable_autosuspend=n udev.log_priority=3"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="video=LVDS-0:d video=LVDS-1:d video=eDP-1-1:d VGA-0:e VGA-1:e video=HDMI-0:e"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="audit=0"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1"
# If you want to enable the save default function, uncomment the following
# line, and set GRUB_DEFAULT to saved.
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
# Preload both GPT and MBR modules so that they are not missed
GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="part_gpt part_msdos"
# Uncomment to enable booting from LUKS encrypted devices
#GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y
# Uncomment to use basic console
GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT=console
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal
#GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command 'videoinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=auto
# Uncomment to allow the kernel use the same resolution used by grub
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
# Uncomment if you want GRUB to pass to the Linux kernel the old parameter
# format "root=/dev/xxx" instead of "root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xxx"
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=true
# Uncomment and set to the desired menu colors. Used by normal and wallpaper
# modes only. Entries specified as foreground/background.
GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="light-gray/black"
GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="green/black"
# Uncomment one of them for the gfx desired, a image background or a gfxtheme
#GRUB_BACKGROUND="/usr/share/grub/background.png"
GRUB_THEME="/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/theme.txt"
# Uncomment to get a beep at GRUB start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
# Uncomment this option to enable os-prober execution in the grub-mkconfig command
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
and here’s my inxi
System:
Kernel: 5.16.14-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64
root=UUID=f18f88bc-4ad6-4f4d-85b7-9892387693dc rw
psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 apparmor=1 security=apparmor
usbcore.autosuspend=-1 nvidia-drm.modeset=1 video=HDMI-0
btusb.enable_autosuspend=n udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.24.3 tk: Qt 5.15.3 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Predator PH317-52 v: V1.19
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: CFL model: Sienna_CFS v: V1.19 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Insyde v: 1.19 date: 07/13/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 46.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 46.4/48.9 Wh (94.9%)
volts: 16.9 min: 15.2 model: LG PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Full
Device-1: hid-58:1f:aa:ec:10:cf-battery model: Siegberts Maus serial: N/A
charge: N/A status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xEC
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3990 high: 4000 min/max: 800/4000 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 3989 2: 3988 3: 3995
4: 3973 5: 4000 6: 3991 7: 4000 8: 3984 bogomips: 36812
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1
empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nvidia v: 510.54
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: none bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c8c
class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Realtek HD WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:3
chip-ID: 0bda:5621 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 4412x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1166x380mm (45.9x15.0")
s-diag: 1226mm (48.3")
Monitor-1: HDMI-0 pos: primary,left res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 105
size: 621x341mm (24.4x13.4") diag: 708mm (27.9")
Monitor-2: eDP-1-1 pos: right res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 112
size: 381x214mm (15.0x8.4") diag: 437mm (17.2")
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 510.54 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.14-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 953.88 GiB used: 300.76 GiB (31.5%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
model: SSD 970 PRO 512GB size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 1B2QEXP7 temp: 52.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFS512G39TND-N210A
size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1P10 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 468.16 GiB (98.22%)
used: 135.06 GiB (28.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 280 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 66.0 C pch: 64.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia
temp: 55 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 270 Uptime: 3h 18m wakeups: 3 Memory: 31.2 GiB
used: 20.5 GiB (65.7%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1653 lib: 470 Shell: Bash
v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.13
but you’re right what the heck is going on ? the parameter isn’t loaded
[ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xec, date = 2021-04-28
[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.16.14-1-MANJARO (builduser@fv-az121-163) (gcc (GCC) 11.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.38) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 11 14:12:18 UTC 2022
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64 root=UUID=f18f88bc-4ad6-4f4d-85b7-9892387693dc rw psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 apparmor=1 security=apparmor usbcore.autosuspend=-1 nvidia-drm.modeset=1 video=HDMI-0 btusb.enable_autosuspend=n udev.log_priority=3
[ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers'
[ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers'
[ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers'
[ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x008: 'MPX bounds registers'
[ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x010: 'MPX CSR'
[ 0.000000] x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]: 576, xstate_sizes[2]: 256
[ 0.000000] x86/fpu: xstate_offset[3]: 832, xstate_sizes[3]: 64
[ 0.000000] x86/fpu: xstate_offset[4]: 896, xstate_sizes[4]: 64
[ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x1f, context size is 960 bytes, using 'compacted' format.
...
....
...
[ 0.162146] DMA: preallocated 4096 KiB GFP_KERNEL pool for atomic allocations
[ 0.162146] DMA: preallocated 4096 KiB GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA pool for atomic allocations
[ 0.162218] DMA: preallocated 4096 KiB GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA32 pool for atomic allocations
[ 0.162228] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[ 0.162240] audit: type=2000 audit(1647368273.036:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
as you can see at boot
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64 root=UUID=f18f88bc-4ad6-4f4d-85b7-9892387693dc rw psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 apparmor=1 security=apparmor usbcore.autosuspend=-1 nvidia-drm.modeset=1 video=HDMI-0 btusb.enable_autosuspend=n udev.log_priority=3
how can this be ?
Can you try adding that parameter to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT instead of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX.
Also try these commands:
systemctl stop systemd-journald-audit.socket
systemctl disable systemd-journald-audit.socket
i’ll try, meanwhile i did a additional
sudo update-grub and sudo mkinitio -P but nothing changed, the parameter is still not accepted
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64 root=UUID=f18f88bc-4ad6-4f4d-85b7-9892387693dc rw psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 apparmor=1 security=apparmor usbcore.autosuspend=-1 nvidia-drm.modeset=1 video=HDMI-0 btusb.enable_autosuspend=n udev.log_priority=3
Did you miss this part above? 
There’s a reason why the Arch wiki suggests to also mask the socket service. Sockets can be active even if the corresponding services are disabled and will start services on demand.
think this did the trick
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64 root=UUID=f18f88bc-4ad6-4f4d-85b7-9892387693dc rw psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 apparmor=1 security=apparmor usbcore.autosuspend=-1 nvidia-drm.modeset=1 video=HDMI-0 btusb.enable_autosuspend=n udev.log_priority=3 audit=0
actual there is no further spam inside dmesg after placing the parameter to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line. but why doesn’t it work in a GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line-parameter instruction ? it’s useless to place it in there and that’s new to me.
Thanks for your help @ishaan2479 and @Yochanan
Thanks for this advice. I’ll write it right between my to ears and do a notie at my todo-list not t forget it ever again.
There really should be no difference booting normally.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT is only used in normal mode while GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX is used in normal and recovery mode. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/440961/grub-cmdline-linux-default-vs-grub-cmdline-linux
In the future, please edit your previous post if the option is available rather that posting twice in a row.
that was my impression too but there must be some difference because now it’s blocked as it should be. very curious.
and yes i have to read the editing notes how to create this side by side view, i didn’t knew that it’s possible.
P.S.: i also masked that spamming-service that no one on earth needs nor wants.
Remember: these lines do not add to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX but replace its value. Effectively you’re only using/applying the last one
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1"
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