[plug] Weird kernel/boot up messages

[Cameron Patrick]

Hi people,

I've finally got a 2.4.23 kernel working(-ish) on the Alpha.  It detects
ethernet, correctly initialises SCSI, and in general, everything seems
to be going correctly.   But.  I'm still getting a number of weird
messages from the kernel, and I'm not quite sure why, or whether they're
something to worry about (given that, after all, it seems to work
anyway).  I don't recall seeing them in 2.2.x though.

I've included below a few sections of logs of the machine booting up
(with my MAC address blanked out).  The lines I'm concerned about are
the "PCI: Unable to reserve I/O" ones, "PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE", the
"blk:" ones with big hexadecimal numbers, the modprobe/ksymoops errors,
"system clock was not updated" and especially the "respawning too fast"
ones (which are printed to the console every five minutes or so).

Anyone know what some of these mean?

Cheers,

Cameron.

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Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
tulip0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
tulip0:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
tulip0:  Index #1 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
tulip0:  Index #2 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
tulip0:  Index #3 - Media 10baseT-FDX (#4) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
tulip0:  Index #4 - Media 100baseTx-FDX (#5) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
tulip0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7809 advertising 01e1.
eth1: Davicom DM9102/DM9102A rev 49 at 0x8400, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 10.
PCI: Unable to reserve I/O region #1:80 at 8800 for device 00:0e.0
PCI: Unable to reserve I/O region #1:80 at 8800 for device 00:0e.0
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
sym.0.6.0: setting PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE.
sym0: <810a> rev 0x11 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 0 irq 11
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi0 : sym-2.1.17a
blk: queue fffffc0003f9e2b0, no I/O memory limit
  Vendor: DEC       Model: RZ26F    (C) DEC  Rev: 1Q04
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
blk: queue fffffc0003f9e4b0, no I/O memory limit
  Vendor: COMPAQ    Model: CD-ROM CR-503BCQ  Rev: 1.1c
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
blk: queue fffffc0003f9e6b0, no I/O memory limit
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sym0:0: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100.0 ns, offset 8)

[...]

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 312k freed
modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20031210.log Read-only file system
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4
modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20031210.log Read-only file system
INIT: version 2.84 booting
Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20031210.log Read-only file system
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4
modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20031210.log Read-only file system
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Activating swap.

[...]

/etc/init.d/rcS: System clock was not updated at this time.

[...]

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 berty ttyS0

berty login: INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes