Wpa-supplicant logs

I just found this thread because I was searching for an answer about this as well. My journalctl is filled up with lines with this message.
Is it something I should worry about, is something not working correctly or is it just a message and no warning or error?
I am using Fedora Kinoite 40, fully updated:

inxi -FzNnx
System:
  Kernel: 6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.41-37.fc40
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.1 Distro: Fedora Linux 40.20241024.0 (Kinoite)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82RG v: Legion 5 Pro 16ARH7H
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76461 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: JUCN51WW date: 08/29/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 77.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 77.2/80.0 Wh (96.5%)
    volts: 17.2 min: 15.4 model: Celxpert L21C4PC1 status: full
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse
    charge: 50% (should be ignored) status: N/A
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_2 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K540/K545
    charge: 50% (should be ignored) status: N/A
  Device-3: hidpp_battery_3 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 6800H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+ rev: 1 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1094 min/max: 400/4785 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1094
    2: 1094 3: 1094 4: 1094 5: 1094 6: 1094 7: 1094 8: 1094 9: 1094 10: 1094
    11: 1094 12: 1094 13: 1094 14: 1094 15: 1094 16: 1094 bogomips: 102210
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: nvidia v: 560.35.03 arch: Ampere bus-ID: 01:00.0
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt [Radeon 680M]
    vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 bus-ID: 34:00.0
    temp: 40.0 C
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.3 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: N/A resolution: 1: 2560x1440 2: 2560x1600
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,nvidia,radeonsi,swrast platforms:
    active: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: device-2
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.1.7 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon 680M (radeonsi rembrandt LLVM
    18.1.6 DRM 3.59 6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.296 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland devices: 3
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 01:00.1
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt Radeon High
    Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 34:00.1
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
    vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_pci_acp6x v: kernel bus-ID: 34:00.5
  Device-4: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio
    vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 34:00.6
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.9 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Lenovo driver: mt7921e v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.0
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai Bluetooth 5.2 Adapter [MediaTek MT7922]
    driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 3-3:3
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
    lmp-v: 11
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 351.99 GiB (36.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL21T0HCLR-00BL2
    size: 953.87 GiB temp: 39.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 313.9 MiB (32.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 44.4 MiB (7.4%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 6.5 MiB (0.1%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.4 C mobo: 39.5 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 14.81 GiB used: 5.38 GiB (36.4%)
  Processes: 408 Uptime: 10h 30m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
  Packages: 48 note: see --rpm Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.26
    inxi: 3.3.36

Hi Jan,

It’s not a problem on your pc. The cause is that the loglevel for wpa-supplicant is set to info by default, which causes superficial entries to be logged to the main log, instead of only more serious errors.

You can adjust the loglevel yourself by editing /usr/lib/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant.service and adding the line:

[Service]
LogLevelMax=3

Level 3 means that only entries of the types Error or more severe will be logged to the main log.

These are the loglevels for reference:

0 Emergency
1 Alert
2 Critical
3 Error
4 Warning
5 Notice
6 Info
7 Debug

Edit: added line to indicate that LogLevelMax should be placed under the [Service] heading

Thank you Olivier. I have the file open and see 3 sections, does it matter where I place that line?
I hope to get rid of many lines once it is working, thank you again.

My apologies, i updated the other post to indicate the right section :+1:

Great, thank you very much.

Olivier, I try to add the line but the system tells me I am on a read-only file system and therefore I can not edit the file. As I wrote I use Kinoite and although the system works well, it has it downsides, this being one of them.
Do you know of a way to get this done or is it completely impossible?

That’s a good question, i’m sure it’s possible but i have no experience with atomic versions so i can’t tell you the best way to do this… Hopefully someone with more hands on experience with Kinoite can chime in for advice.

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@jandemus i may have not been following the official route for editing the service file myself.

The service files in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ are provided by the package and should normally not be edited directly. Custom versions would be placed in /etc/systemd/system/.

The page below provides better alternatives for editing the service file, i suspect they will also work for you on Kinoite:

Added wifi

Hi Olivier, I managed to edit the file and I now have much less lines in the journal.
Again thank you very much for your help.

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