Bug 171198 - Bogus messages in system log (/var/log/messages)
Summary: Bogus messages in system log (/var/log/messages)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: initscripts
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 171739 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 168424 171912
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Reported: 2005-10-19 12:15 UTC by Tomas Mraz
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0015
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-03-15 15:39:15 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2006:0015 0 qe-ready SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: initscripts security update 2006-03-15 05:00:00 UTC

Description Tomas Mraz 2005-10-19 12:15:15 UTC
Description of problem:
After update to RHEL3U6 bogus messages started to appear in the
/var/log/messages. They appear immediately after kernel is started and before
the 'Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode' message.

They look like this:
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo ^A: ÃP
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo ^A:
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo ^A: ^E
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo ^A: p0R
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo ^A: --quiet
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo ^A:
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo ^A: ^E
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo ^A: #
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo ^A: ðT
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo ^A: ^E
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo last message repeated 6 times
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo ^A: ^P^\Y
Oct 17 16:25:57 zelo rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:
 
How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. reboot
2. look into the /var/log/messages
  
Actual results:
bogus messages

Expected results:
no such messages

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-10-19 18:01:01 UTC
What locale are you running in?

Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2005-10-19 18:12:29 UTC
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"


Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-10-19 18:25:22 UTC
Can you attach the entire messages file from the bootup point?

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2005-10-26 17:45:53 UTC
*** Bug 171739 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Bill Nottingham 2005-11-10 23:27:07 UTC
Built in 7.31.28.EL-1.

Comment 17 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-03-15 15:39:15 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0015.html



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