/usr/lib/gdm-x-session spamming syslog
This issue is related to issue #612 (closed) except that it involves current GNOME version 42.3.
Off and on throughout the day, everyday, gdm-x-session writes the following loop to my journal:
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 148.50 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz eP)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1280x720"x0.0 74.25 1280 1390 1430 1650 720 725 730 750 +hsync +vsync (45.0 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 25.18 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 36.00 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 31.50 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 31.50 640 664 704 832 480 489 492 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0 28.32 720 738 846 900 400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 75.00 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "832x624"x0.0 57.28 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 49.50 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 50.00 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1152x864"x0.0 108.00 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x70.0 128.94 1280 1368 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1066 -hsync +vsync (74.6 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 88.75 1440 1488 1520 1600 900 903 909 926 +hsync -vsync (55.5 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1600x900"x60.0 119.00 1600 1696 1864 2128 900 901 904 932 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1600x900"x75.0 152.28 1600 1704 1880 2160 900 901 904 940 -hsync +vsync (70.5 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1680x1050"x0.0 119.00 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 +hsync -vsync (64.7 kHz e)
Aug 05 17:38:00 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (--) modeset(0): HDMI max TMDS frequency 165000KHz
Aug 05 17:38:03 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): EDID vendor "LEN", prod id 25015
Aug 05 17:38:03 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
Aug 05 17:38:03 arch /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[594]: (II) modeset(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
Since May 18, gdm-x-session has spammed my journal with 4,640,720 of these informational modeset lines. By comparison, all other non-gdm-x-session lines total 1,297,339.
I have a Lenovo laptop with a broken builtin monitor and therefore I use an external monitor via HDMI. I have the following as my boot parameter because I was having issues with sleep/hibernate and rtcwake and this proved to be my fix:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=uuid rw loglevel=3 quiet video=eDP-1:d video=HDMI-1:e
I set journald.conf options MaxLevelStore=
and MaxLevelSyslog=
to notice
, but all that did was suppress all other system messasge; gdm-x-session still happily and actively fills the journal with modeset(0): Modeline
messages.
$ uname -a
Linux arch 5.18.15-arch1-2 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:58:16 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ gdm --version
GDM 42.0
$ lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|Display'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 0b)
I would love to know what's causing this so I can fix it, but more than that I would settle for knowing how to stop the messages. I have no performance issues, and nothing is crashing. I just want to stop the spamming.
Please let me know if you need any other information from me.