Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.20

[Randy Dunlap]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 01:15:58 -0400 Nick Bowler wrote:

> Hi Karel,
> 
> On 2011-08-29 14:23 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > The stable util-linux 2.20 release is available at
> > 
> >    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/
> > 
> > Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.
> 
> Just upgraded on one of my machines today, and I was surprised to
> discover that only a small portion of my kernel log was printed by
> dmesg.  "busybox dmesg" and "dmesg -r" both print the full log (~2000
> lines), but plain "dmesg" prints only the first ~150 lines or so.  2.19
> dmesg worked fine.
> 
> The last few lines printed by plain "dmesg" are:
> 
>   [...]
>   ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
>   ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
>   ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
>   ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
>   ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
>   ACPI: Executed 1 blocks of module-level executable AML code
>   ACPI: Actual Package length (234) is larger than NumElements field (3), truncated
> 
> Adding the -r option gives much more:
> 
>   [...]
>   <6>ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
>   <6>ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
>   <6>ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
>   <6>ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
>   <7>ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
>   <4>ACPI: Executed 1 blocks of module-level executable AML code
>   <4>ACPI: Actual Package length (234) is larger than NumElements field (3), truncated
>   <4>
>   <6>ACPI: Interpreter enabled
>   <6>ACPI: (supports S0 S5)
>   <6>ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
>   <6>ACPI: Power Resource [ISAV] (on)
>   <6>ACPI: No dock devices found.
>   [...]
> 
> So it looks like it's tripping over the blank line in the log?

Karel sent a message earlier (Wed. AUG 31) to util-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Subject: dmesg(1) bug

that explains that and includes a patch.

See http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=131478775113617&w=2


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