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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:00:17 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Michael A. Dickerson" <mikey@singingtree.com>
Cc:        Michael Lucas <mlucas@gltg.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: weird daily check output
Message-ID:  <20010327220017.G789@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <00af01c0b6fe$79176a60$db9497cf@singingtree.com>
References:  <99q631$2htl$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <00af01c0b6fe$79176a60$db9497cf@singingtree.com>

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Michael A. Dickerson wrote:

> So far it's looking like it could be hardware .. but what's very suspicious
> is the corruption of the rest of the kernel messages, which is clearly not
> random (lowercase letters->uppercase, etc).  That's probably why people
> accused you of faking the message, since it's hard to think of any
> explanation except maybe a particularly juvenile kiddie getting hold of
> /dev/kmem?

Uppercase to lowercase is a one bit change, so it's possible that it's
faulty memory.  Most of the other changes seem to be like that:

>>> isa0: <ISA$bus> on isab0

space == 0x20, dollar == 0x24

>>> p#i0: <UHCI USB controlle2> at 31,2 irq 9

c == 0x63, # == 0x23

etc...

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