Re: mystery kernel spew

2003-09-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:13:09PM -0700, Doug White wrote: >Incidentally, if you are getting wrapping even without this, you can use a >serial console to capture the output. I've had to do this for doing nasty >ACPI debugging with lots of the options enabled. For kernel spew, you can also increa

Re: mystery kernel spew

2003-09-14 Thread Doug White
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, masta wrote: > I owe you a beer Doug (or a soda-pop)! ;) hehe :) > You were correct about the sysctl.conf being the root-cause of the kernel > spew. Mike Smith ran into it one day and we spent some time debugging it. Someone made the observation that they were sysctl items

Re: mystery kernel spew

2003-09-14 Thread masta
I owe you a beer Doug (or a soda-pop)! ;) You were correct about the sysctl.conf being the root-cause of the kernel spew. My sysctl.conf is having these lines: #security.bsd.see_other_uids=0 sysctl net.inet.tcp.blackhole=1 sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 See the fau paux? I must have decided to

Re: mystery kernel spew

2003-09-14 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, masta wrote: > For some time now I've have an issue with a dell laptop I use. It spews a > bunch of kernel junk after init is spawned, and the spew causes my dmesg > to become too full to actually produce a file I can send to the list that > is meaningfull. I remember this :)

mystery kernel spew

2003-09-13 Thread masta
7;ve decided to proved the info I have at hand. Hopefully somebody will understand what the mystery kernel spew is and give me a clue. Later on I'll see if I can do the old ctrl+alt+esc debuger trick while it spews to get a backtrace thingy. In the mean time does anybody know how to increase the