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Bug 171912

Summary: Bogus messages in system log (/var/log/messages)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: rbiba, rvokal, tao
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Regression
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0016 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-03-07 18:22:27 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 171198    
Bug Blocks: 168429    

Description Bill Nottingham 2005-10-27 19:32:08 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #171198 +++

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 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-11-10 23:28:50 UTC 
Built in 7.93.21.EL-1.
Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-03-07 18:22:27 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-2006-0016.html