From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N34Eu-0006VZ-4B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:50:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 445DAE0818; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:50:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com (mail-ew0-f206.google.com [209.85.219.206]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03A06E0818 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:50:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so505080ewy.34 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:50:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=NjLIB87QwUnp4bIFQMH7Ta3DQfkwSmqAqJygVoa99T8=; b=sms2he4qcKSRwUdKwMQ5SWLDI7K0lH0Q7kMqM607LWmPbR3M6xUgcN1yPQOGrQiCz2 8f6XwIY5leSWEpkVYmnWmmZZe/W5CseBwZg/e4xV3AYZJILq9Hm0zQZhC1YWJRKmBIsA aX6dBtAQCGK2Ufi8RSzxu1MyBJZXn6KrTEPm0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=WOuNgSWEZtE3etVKDQhJ6DNfXAMDiAVqbC2YwsYsmQEIdsAmdpi/NisMTrb/tw7XGO CbnUlWj1eqI2sFVEOuHdsKfwitvwn45mBO0mYk9G0eJ5RWs2i33HhmV0YDVcHf71Eln4 cZgu3SJqkrcrJ90MPZFPzSgcHrKDRAcUSPIXY= Received: by 10.211.146.5 with SMTP id y5mr5474721ebn.41.1256719841477; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm6676906eyd.0.2009.10.28.01.50.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:50:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:49:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-zen4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <200910271110.13489.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910281049.37758.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1d86925c-8719-425f-a52e-4d2e32fa34be X-Archives-Hash: 6296107d73ec6937f0dd2d85013d9ab4 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. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com