Description

In Python, importing onnxruntime emits un-suppressible GPU discovery warning despite ORT_LOGGING_LEVEL=ERROR/FATAL.

$ export ORT_LOGGING_LEVEL=ERROR
$ python -c "import onnxruntime as ort
2026-01-21 12:08:58.794991221 [W:onnxruntime:Default, device_discovery.cc:164 DiscoverDevicesForPlatform] GPU device discovery failed: device_discovery.cc:89 ReadFileContents Failed to open file: "/sys/class/drm/card3/device/vendor"

Occurs in Docker/Linux without GPU present or no permissions.

Expected

env var ORT_LOGGING_LEVEL is respected, no hard coded logging level.

Root Cause
onnxruntime/python/onnxruntime_pybind_module.cc statically initializes LoggingManager lm_info at module load:

• Hard-coded to ORT_LOGGING_LEVEL_WARNING
• Bypasses env variable ORT_LOGGING_LEVEL

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Environment

• OS: Linux Mint native, within Docker
• Python 3.10, 3.11
• onnxruntime-gpu 1.23.2

Repro

export ORT_LOGGING_LEVEL=ERROR
python -c "import onnxruntime as ort"
# Still warns
2026-01-21 12:08:58.794991221 [W:onnxruntime:Default, device_discovery.cc:164 DiscoverDevicesForPlatform] GPU device discovery failed: device_discovery.cc:89 ReadFileContents Failed to open file: "/sys/class/drm/card3/device/vendor"