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

[Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@gmail.com>]

>> 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.

mw