How to avoid microOS login screen message flood?

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Hello,

I recently installed microOS on an old laptop to turn it in a server. It works just fine, but when I boot, the login message is printed every few seconds. It’s not actually an issue, as I can login normally, but I don’t like this behavior and didn’t find how to change it.

I get the message from /etc/issue:

Welcome to openSUSE MicroOS (x86_64) - Kernel 6.15.7-1-default (tty1).

SSH host key: …

[hostname] login:

And every few seconds (the time seems to vary from 3 seconds to 15 seconds), the same message is re-printed. I’d prefer it to be printed just once and wait for me to login. How can I achieve that?

Thanks in advance.

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@Xitllali Hi and welcome to the Forum :smile:
That occurs as a network interface comes up, so you have multiple, one bouncing?

That’s part of issue-generator, lot’s of login sessions? Maybe that is restarting for some reason, check the output from journalctl

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I have two network interfaces, enp2s0 and wlp1s0 (which I deactivated). enp2s0 should be working fine.

Here’s what I got with journalctl:

user@localhost: ~ $ sudo journalctl -u issue-generator.service -b
Jul 29 10:55:06 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Generate issue file for login session...
Jul 29 10:55:06 localhost systemd[1]: issue-generator.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 29 10:55:06 localhost systemd[1]: Finished Generate issue file for login session.
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@Xitllali check systemctl status issue-generator.service

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user@localhost: ~ $ sudo systemctl status issue-generator.service
○ issue-generator.service - Generate issue file for login session
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/issue-generator.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2025-07-29 10:55:06 UTC; 2h 56min ago
 Invocation: ea53b8b4929c4dd695a2e5b0d731e6b0
TriggeredBy: ● issue-generator.path
   Main PID: 1056 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 39ms

Jul 29 10:55:06 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Generate issue file for login session...
Jul 29 10:55:06 localhost systemd[1]: issue-generator.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 29 10:55:06 localhost systemd[1]: Finished Generate issue file for login session.
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@Xitllali I see four (4) issue events here first two (2) are no ip address for ethernet and wifi, next two are the wifi interface coming up… I assume it cycles through the ethernet as well…

I see it here on my desktop, I have five (5) interfaces… it cycles through…

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Sorry, I did a mistake when copying the text printed on the screen. It’s actually:

Welcome to openSUSE MicroOS (x86_64) - Kernel 6.15.7-1-default (tty1).

SSH host key: …
enp2s0: 192.168.1.1
wlp1s0:

[hostname] login:

Still, I’m not sure I understand the problem, is there something I should do from here?

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@Xitllali So an update today, this should disappear as the issue-generator is going to disappear, which is the issue as described…

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/2KQOUKHU5DMKTNJ6B7VRO4W5CDKQ4HRP/

So give it a bit and should clean itself up…

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