Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:57:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom <marc@pc02.labcontrol.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/7414: userunfriendly error message from dmesg Message-ID: <199807271457.QAA26840@pc02.labcontrol.com>
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>Number: 7414
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: userunfriendly error message from dmesg
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 27 08:00:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: & van Woerkom
>Organization:
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
>Description:
when using dmesg to check what happened at boot time,
I got "dmesg: incorrect magic number".
I mistook this first, as having corrupted my dmesg by accident,
but people from de-bsd-questions told me, that my kernel was
older than my dmsg binary, simply.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
I suggest this patch to clarify things (or put some hint on the man page)
*** dmesg.c Mon Jul 27 15:29:07 1998
--- dmesg.c.original Thu Jun 25 02:45:59 1998
***************
*** 113,119 ****
if (KREAD(nl[X_MSGBUF].n_value, bufp) || KREAD((long)bufp, cur))
errx(1, "kvm_read: %s", kvm_geterr(kd));
if (cur.msg_magic != MSG_MAGIC)
! errx(1, "magic number of kernel message buffer is incorrect");
bp = malloc(cur.msg_size);
if (!bp)
errx(1, "malloc failed");
--- 113,119 ----
if (KREAD(nl[X_MSGBUF].n_value, bufp) || KREAD((long)bufp, cur))
errx(1, "kvm_read: %s", kvm_geterr(kd));
if (cur.msg_magic != MSG_MAGIC)
! errx(1, "magic number incorrect");
bp = malloc(cur.msg_size);
if (!bp)
errx(1, "malloc failed");
Regards,
Marc
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