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#153273 - 04/04/2003 14:48 corruption in serial boot log
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
I'm getting some corrupted text in the empeg's boot-time serial output. It's very localized, reproducible, and apparently unchanging. It looks like this:
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)

Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...ta=U9QtpI==QtaQx%1tMeMQt5Itp=91echange_root: old root has d_count=1
~{^=U95=U9Q=1pI==Qokay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k
Some of those are 8-bit characters that won't show up properly here, I'm afraid, but you get the idea.

Is anyone else seeing this? I don't know if it's normal or if it's something I've done during my serial uploader development.
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#153274 - 04/04/2003 14:52 Re: corruption in serial boot log [Re: wfaulk]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
I seem to recall that this happens whenever the player changes serial port speeds. Which it does sometimes depending on settings and circumstances. I could be wrong...

But I see it sometimes, too, so you're not alone.
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#153275 - 04/04/2003 15:06 Re: corruption in serial boot log [Re: tfabris]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Let me restate. Since I've upgraded to 2.0 (I think), it seems to happen every time. I remember seeing once or twice before, but never this often.
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#153276 - 04/04/2003 16:16 Re: corruption in serial boot log [Re: wfaulk]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14472
Loc: Canada
Here's what I get with v2.00final installed, after a fresh power-on:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition

..

And why aren't the [ pre ] tags working here?


Edited by mlord (04/04/2003 16:17)

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#153277 - 04/04/2003 18:03 Re: corruption in serial boot log [Re: mlord]
genixia
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Registered: 08/02/2002
Posts: 3411
And why aren't the [ pre ] tags working here?

Yeah, that's a pain. And I don't like the double spacing on the [ code ] tag either. It's ok for a very small snippet, but useless for anything longer.

What I really want is a [ code=x ] tag where x can be any of {perl, php, c, sh, java, ...}, that will color and space syntactically.
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#153278 - 07/04/2003 14:06 Re: corruption in serial boot log [Re: genixia]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
Yeah, that's a pain. And I don't like the double spacing on the [ code ] tag either. It's ok for a very small snippet, but useless for anything longer.
The problem here is that the backend is replacing all linefeeds with <BR> tags, thus creating the doublespace issue. I remember looking at it when I added the [q] tags, and decided it was too much of a pain to fix at the time. I am going to do some limited testing hopefully in the next few weeks to migrate the BBS to the 6.x codebase.
What I really want is a [ code=x ] tag where x can be any of {perl, php, c, sh, java, ...}, that will color and space syntactically.
I'll adopt Mark's policy on Hijack addons here. Send me the code, and I'll look at implementing it

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#153279 - 07/04/2003 14:55 Re: corruption in serial boot log [Re: drakino]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14472
Loc: Canada
Mmm.. must be that GPL viral effect that billg used to rant about..

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