From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 20 8:25:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4B3537B718 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:25:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmoestl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 31765 invoked by uid 0); 20 Mar 2001 16:25:15 -0000 Received: from p3e9e0375.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO forge.local) (62.158.3.117) by mail.gmx.net (mp008-rz3) with SMTP; 20 Mar 2001 16:25:15 -0000 Received: from tmm by forge.local with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14fOww-0000XE-00; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:25:34 +0100 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:25:34 +0100 From: Thomas Moestl To: Noel Koethe Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dmesg output Message-ID: <20010320172534.A1977@crow.dom2ip.de> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Moestl , Noel Koethe , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from noel@koethe.net on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:10:47PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:10:47PM +0100, Noel Koethe wrote: > since some weeks my dmesg output is broken: > # dmesg > 2250 192.168.159.255:138 in via xl0 > > I got the broken output in the mails every night. > > # uname -a > FreeBSD rock.domain.de 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA #0: Fri Mar 16 22:53:58 \ > CET 2001 > > I tried some cvsup updates but the output is always cuted.:( > > Maybe someone can give me a hint to fix it if the problem is located at my > machine. Try "dmesg -a". The messages are stored in a ring buffer, so the oldest ones will be overwritten if the buffer fills up. Additionally, dmesg will normally not show the console output that is also stored in the message buffer. This produces these effects. This is starting to become a FAQ... - thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message