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Asked: 2014-12-15 08:27:54 +0800 CST

"mei_me 0000:00:16.0: no destination client found 0x00002285" spamming logfile, fix?

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ubuntu 14.04 desktop install. Have fully up to date security and regular updates.

syslog file gets spammed with thousands of this entry:

kernel: [15863.834330] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: no destination client found 0x00002285
kernel: [15863.834330] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: no destination client found 0x00002286
kernel: [15863.834330] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: no destination client found 0x00002287
kernel: [15863.834330] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: no destination client found 0x00002288
...

locks up computer and forces me to restart. Sometimes several restarts are needed before it stops. Anybody know what's going on and how I can fix this? Should I reinstall ubuntu from scratch. Originally I did a full install of 14.04 (did not upgrade from previous version).

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1 Answers

  1. I had the same case as above, with Ubuntu 14.04, Lenovo Thinkpad (W540), and huge syslog and kern.log files (which were eating my root partition free space). The logs were rotating, as seen in /etc/logrotate.d/ (grep helps). After analysing the log files (check out this related answer), the line .0: no destination client found 0x00000585 was repeated zillions of times in both logs. Following the suggestions found above, I did the following in the BIOS:

    • Disabled Wake on Lan Ethernet
    • Disabled Ethernet Lan Opt ROM
    • Changed Network Boot from PCI Lan to my first internal HD
    • Disabled Intel Smart Connect Technology

    I deleted the content from both logs (again, check out this related answer) and after monitoring the logs the message of "no destination client found" is not appearing again.

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