Troubleshooting 'dmesg', /var/log/messages...

[Joao Inacio]

i'm deffinatly no guru, but a quick search in google pointed to...

Pinnacle tv tuner card.

Hope it's not on fire ;)

Cheers,

Joao Inacio



On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:09:03 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Every time I start the machine, dmesg reports a few errors,
> in /var/log/messages I see that dmesg output plus some more errors. I
> don't know what they mean nor how serious they are, but it does worry me
> a bit. I would like so much having "clean" log files.
> 
> Dmesg errors:
> 
> 1) I get half a dozen lines worth of garbage characters:
> 
> RAMDISK: Loading 4116 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-
> \|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
> \|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
> \|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
> \|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
> \|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
> \|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
> \|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-
> \|/done.
> 
> 2) two lines later, I get:
> 
> vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
> 
> 'vesa', doesn't this have to do with video ? Given how many random X and
> GDM crashes and restarts I get, I could do without this vesa error
> thing... :-/
> 
> Then, when I look at /var/log/messages, I get these errors about 30
> minutes after the machine has started. I get these not only after the
> boot, but regularly, spread over the entire up time, at random interval,
> and in random quantity. (sometimes just a line, sometimes two dozens in
> a row...).
> 
> ********
> Jan 29 22:35:49 localhost -- MARK --
> Jan 29 22:42:05 localhost kernel: mt2032 spurcheck triggered: 2
> Jan 29 22:42:08 localhost last message repeated 7 times
> Jan 29 22:42:16 localhost kernel: mt2032 spurcheck triggered: 3
> Jan 29 22:42:16 localhost kernel: mt2032 spurcheck triggered: 3
> Jan 29 22:43:36 localhost last message repeated 8 times
> Jan 29 22:44:34 localhost last message repeated 6 times
> Jan 29 22:44:37 localhost kernel: mt2032 spurcheck triggered: 2
> Jan 29 22:44:38 localhost last message repeated 7 times
> ********
> 
> I welcome any opinions from gurus out there. I so would like my system
> to work 'cleanly'. As we say in Frog land "Where is smoke, there is a
> fire". So, I can't quite believe all these messages are
> trivial...sometihng ust be wrong.... and it ought to be fixed...
> 
> Thanks for any help ! :-)
> 
> Vince
> 
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João Inácio
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