Dmesg output breaking up.

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 23 14:02:11 PST 2004


On Friday 23 January 2004 04:13 pm, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:30:27AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 January 2004 03:23 am, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > > What is it that causes the dmesg output to break after a while?
> > >
> > >     jonah# dmesg
> > >     ev/ttyp0
> > >     pid 23007 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
> > >     pid 61004 (perl), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
> > >
> > >     jonah# uname -a
> > >     FreeBSD jonah 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #5:
> > >         Mon Jan 12 00:17:33 GMT 2004
> > > joe at jonah:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JONAH i386
> > >
> > >     jonah# uptime
> > >      8:22AM  up 10 days,  7:45, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.08, 0.03
> > >
> > > Joe
> >
> > I don't remember the exact details, but dmesg -a will give you the entire
> > message back.  I know that the cause goes back to when the console output
> > started getting dumped into the message buffer.
>
> That appears to work.  It would be good to get this fixed though ->
> I notice that the dmesg output in the period scripts is broken in the
> same way.

Apparently there isn't a good fix.  You can try bugging phk. :)

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