Hendrik Boom wrote: > I keep getting the following message showing up on my root consoles: > > >>svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request > > > It's been a nuisance during upgrade, because when aptitude decides to > ask me a configuration question while I'm eating dinner, sometimes > the question is hopelessly obscured by the time I have to answer it. > I can only hope the question wasn't really important and press return. > (sometimes control-L helps. Sometimes not). > > What is svc? > What piece of the system emits this? > What kind of requests are being processed? > Is it a problem I can fix? > Or should I just find a way of redirecting > the message to a safer place? > I'm using kernel vmlinuz-2.4.16-586. Would a newer kernel help? > > I googled, and found several discussions that seemed to ask > nore thatn answer. The only ultimate cause I found rumoured > as a possibility as a LAN with duplicate IP numbers. I don't > have that problem. > > > See /etc/syslog.conf and look what is redirected to the console or the tty of the console...
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