Oddities in dmesg

Boris Kochergin spawk at acm.poly.edu
Wed Jan 13 16:44:41 UTC 2010


Christoffer Persson wrote:
> I've recently rebooted one of our servers running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4. I found this oddity in the boot message:
>
> GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1a is ufsid/48b6d1673e4caa72.
> GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/48b6d1673e4caa72 removed.
>
> GEOM_WLAARBNEILN:G : L/atbmepl  wuafss indo/t4 8pbr6odp1e6r7lay3 addi0s1m3odu nrteemdov
> ed.
>
> GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/48b6d167a8e1f985 removed.
> WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted
>
>
> Just repeated once, looks like it's a garble between two lines in the boot message. Has anyone seen this happening before
> or any idea what made it happen?
>
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Yeah, this is due to lack of synchronization between multiple pieces of 
code wanting to print something in parallel. I don't know if anything 
can be done about it in 7.x, but the "PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128" option in 
the GENERIC kernel for 8.x takes care of it.

-Boris


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