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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:50:44
Message-Id: 200910281049.37758.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED by Maxim Wexler
1 On Wednesday 28 October 2009 03:50:56 Maxim Wexler wrote:
2 > >> So, since in the digital world, things don't "just happen", can
3 > >> someone enlighten me, or anyone else who's interested, in the
4 > >> connection between the scrollback buffer and usb-storage, if any?
5 > >
6 > > There isn't a connection. Why do you think there is one?
7 >
8 > Because, before the scrollback buffer was configured, when I ran
9 > $dmesg|less the output, ie more that 2700 lines, that came up in the
10 > console, all started with 'usb-storage'. After configuring the
11 > scrollback buffer, there may have been a few usb-console lines but
12 > certainly not 2700, and nothing else, one right after another.
13 >
14 > I understand it makes no sense to say there is a connection but that
15 > is what I saw.
16 >
17 > It may have been intermittant. I notice with successive reboots of
18 > 2.6.30, /dev/sdb1,2, which contain /home and /var are sometimes not
19 > found and not mounted; sometimes not found but mounted anyways;
20 > sometimes found and mounted as per /etc/fstab. If it happens enough
21 > times, I suppose a pattern will emerge but I haven't seen it yet.
22
23 I think the presence or absence of your usb-storage debug output is related to
24 stuff being found or not found, and has nothing whatsoever to do with
25 scrollback.
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29 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com