Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:15:08 -0800 (PST) From: kjkoster@kjkoster.org To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: alpha/24663: Console output gets scribbled into /var/log/messages Message-ID: <200101270015.f0R0F8v99660@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 24663
>Category: alpha
>Synopsis: Console output gets scribbled into /var/log/messages
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-alpha
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 26 16:20:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Kees Jan Koster
>Release: FreeBSD 4.2-stable
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
FreeBSD slugout.kjkoster.org 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #4: Thu Jan 25 00:56:30 CET 2001 kjkoster@slugout.kjkoster.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/SLUGOUT alpha
NoName Alpha, trident ISA VGA card. My x86 PC does not exhibit this problem.
>Description:
When generating large chunks of console output on a graphics console on
my Alpha bits and pieces of it end up in /var/log/messages. Here's what I
see:
Jan 27 01:03:40 slugout /kernel: 0 b681 4826 0005 f420 f000 203f 9681 4821
Jan 27 01:04:05 slugout /kernel: 5f74 6564 6376 616c 7373
Jan 27 01:04:35 slugout /kernel: 0 bf20 0036 fc00 ffff 0104 0000 0000 0000
Jan 27 01:04:40 slugout /kernel: 0 23e0 0046 fc00 ffff 0000 0000 0000 0000
Jan 27 01:04:40 slugout /kernel: b0e118>0258590 0018 0000 0000 0000 2b5e 0001 00 0007
Message from syslogd@slugout at Sat Jan 27 01:04:40 2001 ...
slugout /kernel: b0e118>0258590 0018 0000 0000 0000 2b5e 0001 0001 0007
Jan 27 01:05:00 slugout /kernel: 0 6963 6b5f 756c 6764 5f65 6e75 7469 7300
Jan 27 01:05:05 slugout /kernel: 00 0000 0778 0000 0000 0000
Jan 27 01:05:35 slugout /kernel: 0 0020 a46b 0000 a483 0004 a044 f622 4841
Notice that the information has its date stamps intact although the
strings are only parts of the original, they're logged from /kernel and
they sometimes get written onto my terminal as messages.
>How-To-Repeat:
In one terminal start tail -f /var/log/messages
On the console of the box start
while true; do
hexdump /kernel
done
Watch the messages. This problem does not happen when the hexdumps go
to xterminals. I have no serial console to see if that is affected.
>Fix:
Dunno.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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