Bug 112929

Summary:	strange startup message
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Michael Matz <matz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	All
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	boot message log log with run_parallel=no

Description Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-25 10:27:46 UTC

During boot someone says: 
 
Loaded 390393878469839080 bytes 
 
[...] 
 
Loaded 778254559458668524 bytes 
 
(see attached log)- 
 
Whatever that is, is seems to be rather optimistic about its capabilities. :-) 
 
On a side note, the order of the boot messages is really messed up 
(logged via serial line).

Comment 1 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-25 10:28:28 UTC

Created attachment 47516 [details]
boot message log

Comment 2 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-25 10:59:34 UTC

Use RUN_PARALLEL=no in /etc/sysconfig/boot
and reboot for a usable message.

Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-25 11:26:32 UTC

IMHO this could be a message of the modules from the
km_fcdsl package.  This is only found in /etc/ and /usr/
with the strings `Loaded' and `bytes'.  The LOG() in the
driver uses `%d' whereas the value is an unsigned integer.

Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-25 12:28:31 UTC

Created attachment 47534 [details]
log with run_parallel=no

Comment 5 Karsten Keil 2005-08-25 13:56:54 UTC

No the DSL modules are not loaded at all here and  also see this message. 
And it should display then "Loaded xxx bytes of firmware". 
 
I guess that it maybe /sbin/preload 
kkeil@pinginb:~> strings /sbin/preload |grep Load 
Loaded %zd bytes

Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2005-08-25 14:09:43 UTC

the numbers are _huge_ - and it shouldn't output anything I guess

Comment 7 Michael Matz 2005-08-25 14:32:48 UTC

Next version won't print anything.  But the huge numbers should be 
explained somehow.  Perhaps a 64bit problem.  Steffen: can you please 
start preload by hand, like so: 
 
% /sbin/preload < /var/cache/preload/boot 
 
(or any other file in that directory)?

Comment 8 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-25 14:35:14 UTC

f174:/ # /sbin/preload < /var/cache/preload/boot.preload  
Loaded 390393878469839436 bytes

Comment 9 Michael Matz 2005-08-25 15:15:28 UTC

Hmpf, that's a problem with the FIGETBSZ ioctl.  It fills only a 
32bit argument, but I declared it as long.  Fixed in the next version.

Comment 10 Michael Matz 2005-08-25 15:16:01 UTC

Mark FIXED.