Bug 113579 - supressed kernel messages?
Summary: supressed kernel messages?
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: i686 SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Ruediger Oertel
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Reported: 2005-08-27 19:16 UTC by Ioana Josephine Ciuca
Modified: 2005-09-09 10:44 UTC (History)
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Description Ioana Josephine Ciuca 2005-08-27 19:16:18 UTC 
With beta kernels, when loading for example acx_pci, I get no messages in dmesg
or /var/log/messages. With other kernels, I simply get usefull debugging
information in the messages. Even when loading sky2 modules, i only get "sky2
eth0: enabling interface"; but when the module crashes, nothing is to be found
in dmesg or other logs. This leads to failing in making my acx111 card working.
Comment 1 Hubert Mantel 2005-08-31 15:37:44 UTC 
I'm not aware of any removed or suppressed kernel messages. Maybe somebody is
changing the kernel log level from user space. Rudi, any idea?
Comment 2 Hubert Mantel 2005-08-31 15:38:09 UTC 
Btw, I don't think this is a MAJOR bug :/
Comment 3 Ruediger Oertel 2005-08-31 16:15:18 UTC 
is the kernel really the only thing that differs here ? 
of course different boot-scripts can have different effects ... 
 
btw: that can be changed any time at runtime: 
echo 7 > /proc/sysrq_trigger 
(or just ALT+SYSRQ-7 if sysrq is enabled)
Comment 4 Ruediger Oertel 2005-09-01 10:17:30 UTC 
the loglevel can be adjusted in 
/etc/sysconfig/kernel Variable: KERNEL_LOGLEVEL
Comment 5 Ioana Josephine Ciuca 2005-09-02 21:05:23 UTC 
Tried that. Still no luck. And without a decent logging I am not able to
identify why rmmod acx_pci hangs in a D-state...neither fix my not-working
acx111 wifi card...and so on.
At least you could have tried probing what I wrote here (loading and unloading
acx_pci) and see what i refer to.

Thanks for the support...
Comment 6 Ruediger Oertel 2005-09-08 13:25:24 UTC 
maybe this is even before the boot-scripts set the loglevel. 
 
Hubert: isn't there a cmdline option for the kernel, to set the 
initial loglevel to debug.
Comment 7 Hubert Mantel 2005-09-08 13:32:53 UTC 
Just try kernel parameter "debug"
Comment 8 Ruediger Oertel 2005-09-08 22:27:47 UTC 
and I can load and unload acx_pci without a problem  
... probably beacause I do not have the hardware.
Comment 9 Ruediger Oertel 2005-09-09 10:44:07 UTC 
ok, we have listed all possible ways of getting more debug output 
from the kernel ... -> worksforme