Strange syslog message dump

Juha Virtanen (jiivee@hut.fi)
Fri, 6 Oct 1995 00:16:44 +0200 (EET)


My mouse just died and to see if it is really mouse, X server or
serial port which is misbehaving I did "cat /dev/ttyS1 >
/dev/tty" on one VC as root under Linux-1.3.30 (to eliminate X
server). I got quite strange dump to syslog file i.e., kernel
decided to dump also startup messages to syslog few times. This
machine has now been up a little over six days. Kernel is
compiled with ELF gcc-2.7.0. (And yse, it was mouse which died.)

Juha

First erroneous dump to syslog. In subsequent dumps there were
many more "hadling break..." parts.
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Oct 5 05:11:06 lizard kernel: Kernel logging (sys_syslog) started.
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: handling break....e: result=-11
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: .0.1!
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Ultra at 0x340, 00 00 C0 19 85 AE, IRQ 10 memory 0xc8000-0xcbfff.
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: smc-ultra.c:v1.12 1/18/95 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: IOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfd880
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd8a1
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Probing PCI hardware.
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 35.84 BogoMIPS
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Serial driver version 4.11 with no serial options enabled
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: aic7xxx_detect: AIC-7870 Rev B
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: aic7xxx_detect: devconfig 0x0, devstatus 0x5
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: aic78xx: Reading SEEPROM... done
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: aic7870: extended translation disabled
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: AIC7870 (PCI-bus):
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: irq 9
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: bus release time 40 bclks
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: data fifo threshold 100
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: SCSI CHANNEL A:
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: scsi id 7
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: scsi selection timeout 256 ms
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: scsi bus reset at power-on enabled
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: scsi bus parity enabled
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: scsi bus termination (low byte) enabled
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: aic7xxx: Downloading sequencer code..done.
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Resetting the SCSI bus...
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 2.0/2.0/2.0
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: aic7xxx: Scanning channel A for devices.
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: aic7xxx: target 0 now synchronous at 10.0Mb/s, offset = 0xf
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DPES-31080 Rev: S31Q
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: SCSI Hardware sector size is 512 bytes on device sda
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Memory: 31632k/32768k available (492k kernel code, 384k reserved, 260k data)
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.031 Snap #1 for Linux 1.3.25
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.10 BETA for Linux NET3.031.
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.031 (Snapshot #4)
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Linux version 1.3.30 (root@lizard.hut.fi) (gcc version 2.7.0) #4 Fri Sep 29 16:49:53 EET 1995
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Partition check:
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 > sda4
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Oct 5 23:21:17 lizard kernel: Adding Swap: 32764k swap-space
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