Re: Noisy ipmi0 after bootup? (really other kernel noise)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Robert Elz wrote:

>    Date:        Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:52:24 -0700 (PDT)
>    From:        Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
>    Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.64.0809040848160.592%quicky.whooppee.com@localhost>
>
>  | Since your file contains only comments, then I will take a look and see
>  | why the messages are getting reported.
>
> Note that the messages I sent are (more or less) boot time messages.
> They may be from /etc/rc/* type script execution, but they're
> certainly no later than that - they are after init has started I think
> (when it gets to that stage of the boot process it isn't always easy
> to tell).

Er, yep - they're green for me, too.  I just don't usually watch boot 
messages so hadn't noticed them.  I'll get them fixed soon (later today, 
but probably after I get home from the day job that pays the bills).

>  | The actual console messages are created by the scripts in
>  | /etc/powerd/scripts directory.  For normal (ie, non-INSTALL) situations
>  | you can easily modify them.
>
> Those messages I don't mind at all, they're easy to deal with.
> The ones I'm talking about are kernel printfs (or some similar kernel
> function, xprintf or whatever).  (That is, they appear on the console
> in kernel message colour, rather than white...)

Yup - noted.

> Stuff from logerr is all just fine, and as you say, easy to adjust.
>
>  | I will certainly investigate making the "verbosity" of sysmon_envsys(9)
>  | more tailorable as part of a revamp that I'm planning for the post-5.0
>  | timeframe.
>
> Great, thanks - but as far as the kernel part of it goes, perhaps just
> "absent" (other than for dramatic events) would be better.

Agreed - at least they shouldn't show up in a normal boot.  I'll see if 
it makes sense to keep them for debug boots.


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