At 12:04 PM 2/21/2001 +1100, Steve Horan wrote:
>After booting, dmesg works fine, as normal, but after a while, if I do
>another dmesg, I get only the last entry, and often the first few
>characters are missing.
This is a bug in ipfw. Have a look at the ongoing thread below
>From: Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Solved: Bridging and dummynet seems to destroy dmesg output
>In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Yusuf Goolamabbas
>at "Feb 20, 2001 11:21:54 am"
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yusuf Goolamabbas)
>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:30:19 -0800 (PST)
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> > Luigi, PHK
> >
> > Any resolution on this ?
>
>for sure there is no bug in ip_fw.c -- the change mentioned below just
>happens to change some symptoms but is no fix.
>
>The message buffer is not "busted" as the report says, just has
>some NULs here and there that (probably) dmesg is not handling
>correctly. Poul, do you know more ?
>
> cheers
> luigi
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