Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 28 October 2009 03:50:56 Maxim Wexler wrote:
> >> So, since in the digital world, things don't "just happen", can
> >> someone enlighten me, or anyone else who's interested, in the
> >> connection between the scrollback buffer and usb-storage, if any?
> >
> > There isn't a connection. Why do you think there is one?
> 
> Because, before the scrollback buffer was configured,  when I ran
> $dmesg|less the output, ie more that 2700 lines, that came up in the
> console, all started with 'usb-storage'. After configuring the
> scrollback buffer, there may have been a few usb-console lines but
> certainly not 2700, and nothing else, one right after another.
> 
> I understand it makes no sense to say there is a connection but that
> is what I saw.
> 
> It may have been intermittant. I notice with successive reboots of
> 2.6.30, /dev/sdb1,2, which contain /home and /var are sometimes not
> found and not mounted; sometimes not found but mounted anyways;
> sometimes found and mounted as per /etc/fstab. If it happens enough
> times, I suppose a pattern will emerge but I haven't seen it yet.

I think the presence or absence of your usb-storage debug output is related to 
stuff being found or not found, and has nothing whatsoever to do with 
scrollback.


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