An evening with Archlinux Options

[Eggdog]

It's been an interesting evening. One man, two CD-ROMs, two computers, and three Arch installations.

My laptop doesn't get much of a workout any more, as I travel less than I used to. I tried an Ubuntu system update, from 9.04 to 9.10, and that seemed to work pretty well, but I scraped it off and installed Pardus 2009.1 (which didn't make it into the wild until earlier this year) to audition KDE 4.3.4. I installed Arch tonight. (This probably means the end of my relationship with Pardus. I liked the people on their forum and enjoyed seeing the occasional snippets of Turkish in some .conf files, and still think it's a very good distribution. An earlier version of Pardus used to be on this same laptop, and it was the first one that I could get Wifi to work with. But I just don't care for KDE4.)

I installed Arch with XFCE. I made the mistake of spending time loading up OpenOffice and Emacs before seeing if PyNeighborhood would really get me access to my Windows shares. I had read up about PyNeighborhood the other day and I think I was doing everything right, but I couldn't get it to do anything here (it worked OK for me in Puppy Linux a while back), so I went back to the prompt and installed Gnome. I rewrote my .xinitrc to have the startx command launch Gnome, not XFCE, but Gnome wouldn't fully load. I learned that the two desktops share a number of files in common, more than I had expected. (I remember in a previous Arch installation, I tried to have LXDE and Gnome coexist, but they wouldn't; it was as if LXDE "stole file associations", if you'll pardon the expression, from Gnome, and Gnome wouldn't work correctly until I got rid of LXDE. I was once able to install the KDE desktop under Ubuntu, and Gnome and KDE coexisted pretty nicely -- the menus were cluttered, but everything worked. But I've never been able to achieve that with any other desktop combination, or in any other distro.)

XFCE wouldn't go quietly. I couldn't uninstall it. So I formatted and started over. This time I saved a little time by not testing X. There's a part in the Arch installation guide that tells you to run a configuration script on X as root, then copy the generated file to where it belongs, and then test it out, and if that doesn't work to log in as a non-root user and add a line to .initrc and see if it works there. Well, I've never had a successful test run of X as root; but I've always gotten it to work as non-root user. This has happened five times, I guess, so I just skipped that whole episode. And within 20 minutes I had a beautiful Gnome desktop.

Inspired, I went upstairs and put Arch on my "play" computer. Since the play computer only has a USB CD-ROM, I had to use the alternate install disc, a very bare-bones .isolinux "netinstall". (The regular disk is "core", which sounds minimal enough, but it's got more stuff on it than "netinstall". After the first couple of minutes, the installation procedures are identical. For some reason, Arch encourages you to use the core disk, maybe to reduce load on their various mirrors. The "core" disk is known to not boot from some USB drives. This computer won't boot from a flash drive.)

Again, I skipped the X test, and I had the base system in place in just over an hour, a personal record. It took me another hour to get everything set up, but in that time I installed OpenOffice 3.2 beta, Shiretoko, and Emacs, and got my Web radio stations working, and my email imported into Evolution, and my Samba shares set up as bookmarks. The only thing I haven't resolved is that Emacs is using some hideous screen font it found somewhere, and I don't know how to change that. Otherwise, a successful day. I knew I missed Arch, but I didn't know how much until I saw pacman drawing those [xxxxxxxxxxxx]es roll across the screen.

Question time:

1. Above, I babbled on about not being able to have two desktop managers (Gnome and LXDE, Gnome and XFCE) coexist. Is that typical?

2. The plug-ugly Emacs screen font is, I suspect, picked up from some system setting; there's a "default font" somewhere. Anybody know where?

3. The TTY font on the "play" computer is tiny. It starts out kind of normal, but partway through the scrolling process -- I think it's hitting "udev" right about then -- it goes down to half its previous size. I've never seen anything like that happen before. How can I adjust it? It's way too small for my aging eyes.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Wow! A FUN evening. Stand by, Eddie. I'm sure Josh (SecurityBreach) will be chiming in here shortly.

[securitybreach]

Well to begin with I am on vacation till Friday so it is difficult to research via my smartphone. That being said, I know you can run multiple WMs at the same time....Lxde/gnome, etc. Search the archwiki for 'window managers'.

As far as emacs, I use vim but there is a emacs entry in the archwiki as well.

The tty problem stumps me because I have Arch on my Eeepc 701 which only has a 7in screen and the font stays the same in tty. I would suggest looking at your framebuffer entry in /etc/xorg.conf.

Sorry I could not be of more assistance but I can only open one webpage at time on my phone...

I will try in the next day or so to finf wifi on my lappy to find answers to your issues.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Window Manager --> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Window_Manager

Desktop Environments --> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_environment

[securitybreach]

Thanks a lot Eric

[Eggdog]

Wow! A FUN evening.

My philosophy is, “Next time you think, ‘Installing distros is sooo boring,’ see how many dishes are in the sink, then decide, ‘Do you really want to deal with that?’”

Well to begin with I am on vacation till Friday so it is difficult to research via my smartphone. That being said, I know you can run multiple WMs at the same time....Lxde/gnome, etc. Search the archwiki for 'window managers'.

The archwiki didn’t seem to touch on multiple-desktop-environment quirks. I'm going to put that on the back burner for now because I've got a few other educational projects I want to work on.

However, I do think I’m on the way to cracking the Emacs screen font problem. It’s not an X setting; it used to be, but it appears that starting with v. 23 it is now an internal setting & will require some typing on my part. On that particular computer much of my Emacs work can be done at the console, which would be fine except that so far I haven’t made much progress on the “infinitesimally small TTY font” dilemma.

If you said you were going away, I missed it somehow or another. Have fun!

Eddie

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Eddie,

There's a diff between desktop environments and windows managers. Some desktop environments come with their own windows managers, like Gnome and KDE, for instance. You need to make sure in Arch that you're not running desktop environments with incompatible windows managers, like trying to run Xfce desktop w/ GDM (Gnome windows manager). I don't think that will work. Xfce has its own windows manager... xdg. LXDE does not have a windows manager. I run LXDE in Sidux with Openbox windows manager.

Clear as mud, huh?

[Eggdog]

There's a diff between desktop environments and windows managers. Some desktop environments come with their own windows managers, like Gnome and KDE, for instance. You need to make sure in Arch that you're not running desktop environments with incompatible windows managers, like trying to run Xfce desktop w/ GDM (Gnome windows manager).

I wonder if some setting somewhere that I couldn't get my hands on continued to load xdg even after I had configured my .xinitrc to default to Gnome. In retrospect, I could have tried to load Gnome directly from the command line, not by invoking .xinitrc, just to see if that would have made a difference.

Xfce has its own windows manager... xdg. LXDE does not have a windows manager. I run LXDE in Sidux with Openbox windows manager.

Clear as mud, huh?

Clear as beer! LDXE is a desktop environment without a window manager. Openbox or IceWM are window managers without desktop environments. Gnome and KDE are desktop environments with their own window managers. So who sez Linux is hard work??

Eddie

This post has been edited by Eggdog: Jan 23 2010, 03:06 PM

[V.T. Eric Layton]

"LDXE is a desktop environment without a window manager. Openbox or IceWM are window managers without desktop environments. Gnome and KDE are desktop environments with their own window managers."

Heck... with that explanation, even I understand it now.

What's your xinit.rc look like, just out of curiosity?

[Eggdog]

"LDXE is a desktop environment without a window manager. Openbox or IceWM are window managers without desktop environments. Gnome and KDE are desktop environments with their own window managers."

Heck... with that explanation, even I understand it now.

What's your xinit.rc look like, just out of curiosity?

_____________________________________________________
#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
# exec xterm
_____________________________________________________

My needs are modest. Either that or I can't think of much to say.

I fixed the Emacs display problem. It was incredibly easy; I had to add one line in my .emacs file (that's like a .conf file) pointing to Bitstream Vera Mono, and I'm good to go. I think the last time I tried to do that was on an earlier version that wouldn't set a default display face independently of some X configuring that I wasn't ready for. If I'm reading the wiki properly, it was only with version 23 (the current one, it was "officially" released last year) that you could do that from within Emacs itself. I started with Emacs 21.

Eddie

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Since you're starting a Gnome session, I'm gonna' assume you're running Gnome as a DE, right? I run Gnome in Arch also. I had some issues with Xfce4 in Arch (later overcame them in Slackware).

[securitybreach]

Eric, thanks for jumping in and helping out in my absence. Of course, I would expect nothing less from you Eric

Eddie, glad you got Emacs working anyway. Maybe you can find an enviroment that suits you on your Arch machine. Basically all DEs and WMs are available in the Arch repos, so you have plenty to try out

[V.T. Eric Layton]

I'm NOT the "Nocturnal Archer", so I have to muddle my way along in this topic.

[regexorcist]

If you avoided Gnome, you may have saved yourself a lot of grief.
Your machine would probably run much better without it

Gnome + mono , I'm no fan of the ever growing KDE either, it's HUGE

glad everything worked out for you.

[Eggdog]

Everything is going swimmingly except that Firefox Shiretoko seems unstable. I'm not detecting any consistent patterns of memory or CPU load, but it has died a few times on me, notably while listening to Web radio. In other installs, Rhapsody in particular acted flaky, but didn't bring Firefox down with it.

The last time I logged out of my Gnome session, I saw some murky-looking messages. On further inspection, I found the following:

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Jan 24 16:45:42 arch-shuttle gnome-session[1623]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup session information for process '1623'

A search for Process 1623 reveals that Kazuo Fukijawa's article Effects of the Neutral Weak Current on the Process ν+(Z)→ν+μ+μ̅ starts on volume D8, page 1623 of the Physical Review, but not much more than that. Does anybody by chance know what session.log is talking about here?

Thanks,

Eddie

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Process 1623 was the PID (process ID) of the buggy app at the time of the log. Process numbers change as they are assigned/reassigned by the kernel after they're restarted, so no way to know what it was at this point. Next time you see the error, before doing anything else:

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$ps -p <PID>

This will output the name of the app that the PID belongs to.

For instance on my system, if I do this for Firefox's PID, it looks like this:

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vtel57_Slackware~:$ ps -p 13214
PID         TTY          TIME            CMD
13214     tty1          00:00:00    firefox

[Eggdog]

I'm NOT the "Nocturnal Archer"

Not yet, anyway

Here's another question. I just logged out of a Gnome session and saw some error messages pertaining to Evolution. I didn't have a prompt, so I hit ^Z (I think it was) and then went to read the log files in hopes of studying them. But I couldn't find the references to Evolution. I looked in everything.log and session.log and a couple of others which were apparently compressed because I couldn't display them. I wonder what could have happened to the Evolution messages?

I can't go look up the names of all the log files I looked at because I'm writing this in Links. (In theory, I can drop out to the OS shell, but in practice I'd probably never be able to get back here.) It's actually kind of fun, but I've really got to figure out how to navigate more quickly; arrowing through all the, umm, links on a thread like this is a bit much.

Eddie

[Eggdog]

Next time you see the error, before doing anything else:

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$ps -p <PID>

Cool! I just went Ctrl-Alt-F1 to read the errors, found a process number, logged in at Ctrl-Alt-F2 to identify it (it was gnome-session), and then went Ctrl-Alt-F7 to... actually, there was nothing there, not even a prompt. For some reason, I have to do Ctrl-Alt-F8 to get back to the GUI session. Which I did, and Firefox had frozen in place. So I went Ctrl-Alt-F1, stopped the X session, logged out, and logged back in again.

I’m tempted to go back and rename this thread “Several evenings with babbling Eggdog”, but I think I’m learning all sorts of useful information.

Regexorcist, I’m not ignoring you! I’ll get to the part where I explain why Gnome is good

I was thinking of installing a VirtualBox in this Archlinux, and installing another Archlinux within that VirtualBox, there to play with alternative, rebel, and obscure window managers without disrupting this here setup. I haven't been in love with the VirtualBox experience in the past, but for that purpose it might be the most appropriate tactic.

Eddie

This post has been edited by Eggdog: Jan 24 2010, 10:05 PM

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Man! There do seem to be some Gnome bugaboos going on with your Arch install, Eddie. That's odd, as far as I'm concerned. Gnome is usually the proverbial rock on any of my installations. Right after you first boot up, login, and startx; open a terminal in Gnome and run this command:

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$ dmesg

... post output here, please. It'll be pretty long-ish.

[securitybreach]

I have to agree with Eric, something is definetly wrong with your Gnome installation. Have you read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME ?? There may be something you are missing or something else.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Also, Eddie...

Here's what I have in my Arch - /var/log directory:

ConsoleKit crond.1 errors.log.2 kernel.log.2 syslog.log
Xorg.0.log crond.2 everything.log lastlog syslog.log.1
Xorg.0.log.old daemon.log everything.log.1 messages.log syslog.log.2
auth.log daemon.log.1 everything.log.2 messages.log.1 user.log
auth.log.1 daemon.log.2 faillog messages.log.2 user.log.1
auth.log.2 dmesg.log gdm old user.log.2
btmp errors.log kernel.log pacman.log wtmp
crond errors.log.1 kernel.log.1 pm-powersave.log wtmp.1

You can read the tail end of most of those logs by using this command:

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# tail <name>.log

Let's do the errors.log just for an example:

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# tail errors.log

... and the output of my actual error.log in Arch:

Dec 12 16:21:30 ericsbane03 ntpd[1686]: bind() fd 19, family AF_INET6, port 123, scope 2, addr fe80::20f:eaff:fe52:6624, mcast=0 flags=0x11 fails: Cannot assign requested address
Dec 12 16:21:30 ericsbane03 ntpd[1686]: unable to create socket on eth0 (3) for fe80::20f:eaff:fe52:6624#123
Jan 7 21:24:00 ericsbane03 ntpd[1682]: bind() fd 19, family AF_INET6, port 123, scope 2, addr fe80::20f:eaff:fe52:6624, mcast=0 flags=0x11 fails: Cannot assign requested address
Jan 7 21:24:00 ericsbane03 ntpd[1682]: unable to create socket on eth0 (3) for fe80::20f:eaff:fe52:6624#123
Jan 7 22:17:35 ericsbane03 ntpd[1908]: bind(21) AF_INET6 fe80::20f:eaff:fe52:6624%2#123 flags 0x1 failed: Cannot assign requested address
Jan 7 22:17:35 ericsbane03 ntpd[1908]: unable to create socket on eth0 (5) for fe80::20f:eaff:fe52:6624#123
Jan 16 18:00:38 ericsbane03 ntpd[1921]: bind(21) AF_INET6 fe80::20f:eaff:fe52:6624%2#123 flags 0x1 failed: Cannot assign requested address
Jan 16 18:00:38 ericsbane03 ntpd[1921]: unable to create socket on eth0 (5) for fe80::20f:eaff:fe52:6624#123

You can check on some of your logfiles in there and see if anything interesting pops up at you.

[Eggdog]

Man! There do seem to be some Gnome bugaboos going on with your Arch install, Eddie. That's odd, as far as I'm concerned. Gnome is usually the proverbial rock on any of my installations. Right after you first boot up, login, and startx; open a terminal in Gnome and run this command:

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$ dmesg

... post output here, please. It'll be pretty long-ish.

I agree, Eric, I’ve hardly had a moment's problem with Gnome. I'm beginning to suspect that a really bad installation of Firefox the browser that dare not speak its own name might be at fault here. But I’ll get to that in the next post....

Josh, the ArchWiki Gnome page was interesting reading, though I found nothing that looked like a red flag about my situation. I printed it out for my Arch looseleaf binder. I haven't installed a Gnome desktop environment in Archlinux since October, and there could be a new line or 10,000 in the code that my Shuttle doesn’t like. But I do very little customization, and I’ve never had problems on this computer before. I could write it off as a bad day and just reinstall, but I feel like I’m learning scads of knowledge here (Archlinux is like that, even when it Just Works), which in its own way is more fun than having an install that is “good enough to get by”.

Dmesg in full will be below. I pasted it into Emacs and searched for the word warning and only found one instance; and that was attached to a VirtualBox message. (I installed VirtualBox from the repo yesterday. It doesn't work. But that's yet another story.) I scrolled through it and frankly didn't find anything that jumped out at me.

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[eddie@arch-shuttle ~]$ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.32-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.4.2 20091208 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 23 13:53:44 UTC 2010
KERNEL supported cpus:
  Intel GenuineIntel
  AMD AuthenticAMD
  NSC Geode by NSC
  Cyrix CyrixInstead
  Centaur CentaurHauls
  Transmeta GenuineTMx86
  Transmeta TransmetaCPU
  UMC UMC UMC UMC
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007f690000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000007f690000 - 000000007f6e3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000007f6e3000 - 000000007f6f0000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000007f6f0000 - 000000007f700000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
DMI 2.5 present.
Phoenix BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved)
last_pfn = 0x7f690 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
MTRR default type: uncachable
MTRR fixed ranges enabled:
  00000-9FFFF write-back
  A0000-EFFFF uncachable
  F0000-FFFFF write-through
MTRR variable ranges enabled:
  0 base 000000000 mask F80000000 write-back
  1 base 07F800000 mask FFF800000 uncachable
  2 base 07F700000 mask FFFF00000 uncachable
  3 disabled
  4 disabled
  5 disabled
  6 disabled
  7 disabled
x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
Scanning 0 areas for low memory corruption
modified physical RAM map:
modified: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (reserved)
modified: 0000000000010000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
modified: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
modified: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
modified: 0000000000100000 - 000000007f690000 (usable)
modified: 000000007f690000 - 000000007f6e3000 (ACPI NVS)
modified: 000000007f6e3000 - 000000007f6f0000 (ACPI data)
modified: 000000007f6f0000 - 000000007f700000 (reserved)
modified: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
modified: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
initial memory mapped : 0 - 01800000
init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-00000000377fe000
0000000000 - 0000400000 page 4k
0000400000 - 0037400000 page 2M
0037400000 - 00377fe000 page 4k
kernel direct mapping tables up to 377fe000 @ 10000-15000
RAMDISK: 7f5d1000 - 7f67f7f3
Allocated new RAMDISK: 00100000 - 001ae7f3
Move RAMDISK from 000000007f5d1000 - 000000007f67f7f2 to 00100000 - 001ae7f2
ACPI: RSDP 000f7ad0 00014 (v00 Shuttl)
ACPI: RSDT 7f6e3000 0003C (v01 Shuttl Shuttle  42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
ACPI: FACP 7f6e3080 00074 (v01 Shuttl Shuttle  42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
ACPI: DSDT 7f6e3100 0416A (v01 SHUTTL  SK45V10 00001000 MSFT 03000000)
ACPI: FACS 7f690000 00040
ACPI: HPET 7f6e7340 00038 (v01 Shuttl Shuttle  42302E31 AWRD 00000098)
ACPI: MCFG 7f6e7380 0003C (v01 Shuttl Shuttle  42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
ACPI: SLIC 7f6e73c0 00176 (v01 Shuttl Shuttle  42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
ACPI: APIC 7f6e7280 00084 (v01 Shuttl Shuttle  42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
ACPI: SSDT 7f6e7c60 007EF (v01  PmRef    CpuPm 00003000 INTL 20041203)
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
1150MB HIGHMEM available.
887MB LOWMEM available.
  mapped low ram: 0 - 377fe000
  low ram: 0 - 377fe000
  node 0 low ram: 00000000 - 377fe000
  node 0 bootmap 00011000 - 00017f00
(9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 00377fe000]
  #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000]   BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
  #1 [0000001000 - 0000002000]    EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
  #2 [0000006000 - 0000007000]       TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
  #3 [0001000000 - 000152c024]    TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0001000000 - 000152c024]
  #4 [000009f000 - 0000100000]    BIOS reserved ==> [000009f000 - 0000100000]
  #5 [000152d000 - 00015330ae]              BRK ==> [000152d000 - 00015330ae]
  #6 [0000010000 - 0000011000]          PGTABLE ==> [0000010000 - 0000011000]
  #7 [0000100000 - 00001ae7f3]      NEW RAMDISK ==> [0000100000 - 00001ae7f3]
  #8 [0000011000 - 0000018000]          BOOTMAP ==> [0000011000 - 0000018000]
found SMP MP-table at [c00f37d0] f37d0
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA      0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
  Normal   0x00001000 -> 0x000377fe
  HighMem  0x000377fe -> 0x0007f690
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
    0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009f
    0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0007f690
On node 0 totalpages: 521759
free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c13d9d60, node_mem_map c1535200
  DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
  DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
  DMA zone: 3951 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 1744 pages used for memmap
  Normal zone: 221486 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 2302 pages used for memmap
  HighMem zone: 292244 pages, LIFO batch:31
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000
SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 2 hotplug CPUs
nr_irqs_gsi: 24
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 7f700000 (gap: 7f700000:60900000)
Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
NR_CPUS:8 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:4 nr_node_ids:1
PERCPU: Embedded 14 pages/cpu @c2800000 s34680 r0 d22664 u1048576
pcpu-alloc: s34680 r0 d22664 u1048576 alloc=1*4194304
pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 1 2 3
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 517681
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/a2ceafb6-645e-4a99-a0a0-c167b4230193 ro
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
Initializing HighMem for node 0 (000377fe:0007f690)
Memory: 2062476k/2087488k available (2793k kernel code, 23432k reserved, 1180k data, 408k init, 1178184k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
    fixmap  : 0xfff1e000 - 0xfffff000   ( 900 kB)
    pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
    vmalloc : 0xf7ffe000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 120 MB)
    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf77fe000   ( 887 MB)
      .init : 0xc13e2000 - 0xc1448000   ( 408 kB)
      .data : 0xc12ba77a - 0xc13e1908   (1180 kB)
      .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc12ba77a   (2793 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
Hierarchical RCU implementation.
NR_IRQS:512
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
hpet clockevent registered
HPET: 3 timers in total, 0 timers will be used for per-cpu timer
Fast TSC calibration using PIT
Detected 2402.358 MHz processor.
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 4806.91 BogoMIPS (lpj=8007860)
Security Framework initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
mce: CPU supports 6 MCE banks
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
using mwait in idle threads.
Performance Events: Core2 events, Intel PMU driver.
... version:                2
... bit width:              40
... generic registers:      2
... value mask:             000000ffffffffff
... max period:             000000007fffffff
... fixed-purpose events:   3
... event mask:             0000000700000003
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: Core revision 20090903
..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E4600  @ 2.40GHz stepping 0d
Booting processor 1 APIC 0x1 ip 0x6000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4806.12 BogoMIPS (lpj=8008198)
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2)
CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E4600  @ 2.40GHz stepping 0d
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
Total of 2 processors activated (9613.03 BogoMIPS).
CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
domain 0: span 0-1 level MC
  groups: 0 1
CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
domain 0: span 0-1 level MC
  groups: 1 0
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Found Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory Controller Hub with MMCONFIG support.
PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base e0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 255
PCI: MCFG area at e0000000 reserved in E820
PCI: Using MMCONFIG for extended config space
PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: No dock devices found.
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
pci 0000:00:02.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xfdf00000-0xfdf7ffff]
pci 0000:00:02.0: reg 14 io port: [0xff00-0xff07]
pci 0000:00:02.0: reg 18 32bit mmio pref: [0xd0000000-0xdfffffff]
pci 0000:00:02.0: reg 1c 32bit mmio: [0xfdf80000-0xfdfbffff]
pci 0000:00:1b.0: reg 10 64bit mmio: [0xfdff8000-0xfdffbfff]
pci 0000:00:1b.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:1b.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:1c.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:1c.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:1c.1: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:1c.1: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:1d.0: reg 20 io port: [0xfe00-0xfe1f]
pci 0000:00:1d.1: reg 20 io port: [0xfd00-0xfd1f]
pci 0000:00:1d.2: reg 20 io port: [0xfc00-0xfc1f]
pci 0000:00:1d.3: reg 20 io port: [0xfb00-0xfb1f]
pci 0000:00:1d.7: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xfdfff000-0xfdfff3ff]
pci 0000:00:1d.7: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:1d.7: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 0480-04bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO
pci 0000:00:1f.0: ICH7 LPC Generic IO decode 1 PIO at 0800 (mask 003f)
pci 0000:00:1f.0: ICH7 LPC Generic IO decode 2 PIO at 0290 (mask 001f)
pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 10 io port: [0x00-0x07]
pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 14 io port: [0x00-0x03]
pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 18 io port: [0x00-0x07]
pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 1c io port: [0x00-0x03]
pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 20 io port: [0xfa00-0xfa0f]
pci 0000:00:1f.2: reg 10 io port: [0xf900-0xf907]
pci 0000:00:1f.2: reg 14 io port: [0xf800-0xf803]
pci 0000:00:1f.2: reg 18 io port: [0xf700-0xf707]
pci 0000:00:1f.2: reg 1c io port: [0xf600-0xf603]
pci 0000:00:1f.2: reg 20 io port: [0xf500-0xf50f]
pci 0000:00:1f.2: PME# supported from D3hot
pci 0000:00:1f.2: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:1f.3: reg 20 io port: [0x500-0x51f]
pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge io port: [0xc000-0xcfff]
pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xfdb00000-0xfdbfffff]
pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge 64bit mmio pref: [0xfde00000-0xfdefffff]
pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 10 64bit mmio: [0xfddfc000-0xfddfffff]
pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 18 io port: [0xee00-0xeeff]
pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 30 32bit mmio pref: [0x000000-0x01ffff]
pci 0000:02:00.0: supports D1 D2
pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:02:00.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:1c.1: bridge io port: [0xe000-0xefff]
pci 0000:00:1c.1: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xfdd00000-0xfddfffff]
pci 0000:00:1c.1: bridge 64bit mmio pref: [0xfdc00000-0xfdcfffff]
pci 0000:00:1e.0: transparent bridge
pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge io port: [0xd000-0xdfff]
pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xfda00000-0xfdafffff]
pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge 64bit mmio pref: [0xfd900000-0xfd9fffff]
pci_bus 0000:00: on NUMA node 0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 *15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
vgaarb: device added: PCI:0000:00:02.0,decodes=io+mem,owns=io+mem,locks=none
vgaarb: loaded
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
Switching to clocksource tsc
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
system 00:01: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0x880-0x88f has been reserved
system 00:0a: ioport range 0x400-0x4bf could not be reserved
system 00:0c: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff has been reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0xf0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0xfed00000-0xfed000ff has been reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0x7f690000-0x7f6fffff could not be reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0x100000-0x7f68ffff could not be reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0xfed13000-0xfed1dfff has been reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0xfed20000-0xfed8ffff has been reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff has been reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0xffb00000-0xffb7ffff has been reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0xfff00000-0xffffffff has been reserved
system 00:0d: iomem range 0xe0000-0xeffff has been reserved
pci 0000:00:1c.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:01
pci 0000:00:1c.0:   IO window: 0xc000-0xcfff
pci 0000:00:1c.0:   MEM window: 0xfdb00000-0xfdbfffff
pci 0000:00:1c.0:   PREFETCH window: 0x000000fde00000-0x000000fdefffff
pci 0000:00:1c.1: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:02
pci 0000:00:1c.1:   IO window: 0xe000-0xefff
pci 0000:00:1c.1:   MEM window: 0xfdd00000-0xfddfffff
pci 0000:00:1c.1:   PREFETCH window: 0x000000fdc00000-0x000000fdcfffff
pci 0000:00:1e.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:03
pci 0000:00:1e.0:   IO window: 0xd000-0xdfff
pci 0000:00:1e.0:   MEM window: 0xfda00000-0xfdafffff
pci 0000:00:1e.0:   PREFETCH window: 0x000000fd900000-0x000000fd9fffff
pci 0000:00:1c.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
pci 0000:00:1c.0: setting latency timer to 64
pci 0000:00:1c.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
pci 0000:00:1c.1: setting latency timer to 64
pci 0000:00:1e.0: setting latency timer to 64
pci_bus 0000:00: resource 0 io:  [0x00-0xffff]
pci_bus 0000:00: resource 1 mem: [0x000000-0xffffffff]
pci_bus 0000:01: resource 0 io:  [0xc000-0xcfff]
pci_bus 0000:01: resource 1 mem: [0xfdb00000-0xfdbfffff]
pci_bus 0000:01: resource 2 pref mem [0xfde00000-0xfdefffff]
pci_bus 0000:02: resource 0 io:  [0xe000-0xefff]
pci_bus 0000:02: resource 1 mem: [0xfdd00000-0xfddfffff]
pci_bus 0000:02: resource 2 pref mem [0xfdc00000-0xfdcfffff]
pci_bus 0000:03: resource 0 io:  [0xd000-0xdfff]
pci_bus 0000:03: resource 1 mem: [0xfda00000-0xfdafffff]
pci_bus 0000:03: resource 2 pref mem [0xfd900000-0xfd9fffff]
pci_bus 0000:03: resource 3 io:  [0x00-0xffff]
pci_bus 0000:03: resource 4 mem: [0x000000-0xffffffff]
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device
Unpacking initramfs...
Freeing initrd memory: 697k freed
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
type=2000 audit(1264439623.253:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
msgmni has been set to 1730
alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: irq 24 for MSI/MSI-X
pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: setting latency timer to 64
pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: setting latency timer to 64
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
PM: Resume from disk failed.
registered taskstats version 1
Initalizing network drop monitor service
Freeing unused kernel memory: 408k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 3.00 loaded.
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.13
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: setting latency timer to 64
scsi0 : ata_piix
scsi1 : ata_piix
ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xfa00 irq 14
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xfa08 irq 15
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ]
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: setting latency timer to 64
scsi2 : ata_piix
scsi3 : ata_piix
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf900 ctl 0xf800 bmdma 0xf500 irq 19
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf700 ctl 0xf600 bmdma 0xf508 irq 19
ata2: port disabled. ignoring.
ata3.00: ATA-8: WDC WD1600AAJS-75WAA0, 58.01D58, max UDMA/133
ata3.00: 312500000 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD1600AAJS-7 58.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 312500000 512-byte logical blocks: (160 GB/149 GiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
EXT4-fs (sda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
rtc_cmos 00:04: RTC can wake from S4
rtc_cmos 00:04: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
rtc0: alarms up to one month, 242 bytes nvram, hpet irqs
udev: starting version 146
vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
vboxdrv: Warning: 2.6.31+ kernel detected. Most likely the hardware performance
vboxdrv: counter framework which can generate NMIs is active. You have to prevent
vboxdrv: the usage of hardware performance counters by
vboxdrv:   echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid
vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x1e0 offMax=0x1de8
vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.1.2_OSE (interface 0x00100001).
ACPI: SSDT 7f6e7580 0030F (v01  PmRef  Cpu0Ist 00003000 INTL 20041203)
processor LNXCPU:00: registered as cooling_device0
ACPI: SSDT 7f6e7aa0 001B3 (v01  PmRef  Cpu1Ist 00003000 INTL 20041203)
processor LNXCPU:01: registered as cooling_device1
input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input2
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input3
ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input4
ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
fan PNP0C0B:00: registered as cooling_device2
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
sky2 driver version 1.25
sky2 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
sky2 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
sky2 0000:02:00.0: Yukon-2 EC Ultra chip revision 5
sky2 0000:02:00.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
sky2 eth0: addr 00:30:1b:46:b7:72
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
thermal LNXTHERM:01: registered as thermal_zone0
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (30 C)
intel_rng: FWH not detected
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
Linux agpgart interface v0.103
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
IT8718 SuperIO detected.
parport_pc 00:08: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7
iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 945G Chipset
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 7932K stolen memory
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.05
iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH7 or ICH7R TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0460)
iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: setting latency timer to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: using broken periodic workaround
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: cache line size of 32 is not supported
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, io mem 0xfdfff000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: setting latency timer to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 23, io base 0x0000fe00
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: setting latency timer to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x0000fd00
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: setting latency timer to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000fc00
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: PCI INT D -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: setting latency timer to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 16, io base 0x0000fb00
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
hda_codec: ALC662 rev1: BIOS auto-probing.
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input5
i915 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[drm] set up 7M of stolen space
usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-6:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-6:1.0: 4 ports detected
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
integrated sync not supported
[drm] DAC-6: set mode 1280x1024 1b
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
registered panic notifier
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
usb 1-6.4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
phy0: hwaddr 00:c0:02:04:f1:d4, RTL8187vB (default) V1 + rtl8225z2, rfkill mask 2
rtl8187: Customer ID is 0xFF
Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::tx
Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::rx
rtl8187: wireless switch is on
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
usb 1-6.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-6.4:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-6.4:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 1-6.4.3: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-6.4.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-6/1-6.4/1-6.4.3/1-6.4.3:1.0/input/input6
generic-usb 0003:046D:C51B.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-6.4.3/input0
generic-usb 0003:046D:C51B.0002: hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Device [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-6.4.3/input1
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
EXT4-fs (sda4): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
Adding 530136k swap on /dev/sda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:530136k
sky2 eth0: enabling interface
scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM            ATAPI    DVD A  DH20A3P   XP5U PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
usb-storage: device scan complete
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/12x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
integrated sync not supported
integrated sync not supported
CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain.
CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
domain 0: span 0-1 level MC
  groups: 0 1
CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
domain 0: span 0-1 level MC
  groups: 1 0
integrated sync not supported
integrated sync not supported
integrated sync not supported
fuse init (API version 7.13)
[eddie@arch-shuttle ~]$

[Eggdog]

Here's what I have in my Arch - /var/log directory:

Here's mine:

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[eddie@arch-shuttle ~]$ su
Password:
[root@arch-shuttle eddie]# cd /var/log
[root@arch-shuttle log]# dir -a
.        crond.1      everything.log    messages.log      user.log
..        crond.log      everything.log.1  messages.log.1    user.log.1
auth.log    daemon.log      faillog        old              uucp.log
auth.log.1  daemon.log.1  gdm            pacman.log          wtmp
btmp        dmesg.log      kernel.log        pm-powersave.log  Xorg.0.log
ConsoleKit  errors.log      kernel.log.1        syslog.log          Xorg.0.log.old
crond        errors.log.1  lastlog        syslog.log.1

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You can check on some of your logfiles in there and see if anything interesting pops up at you.

Well, here's something from errors.log:

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[root@arch-shuttle log]# emacs errors.log

(emacs:1903): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
[root@arch-shuttle log]# tail errors.log
Jan 25 01:07:48 arch-shuttle kernel: Out of memory: kill process 4536 (firefox) score 44612 or a child
Jan 25 01:07:48 arch-shuttle kernel: Killed process 4536 (firefox)
Jan 25 12:13:52 arch-shuttle kernel: vboxdrv: Warning: 2.6.31+ kernel detected. Most likely the hardware performance
Jan 25 12:13:52 arch-shuttle kernel: vboxdrv: counter framework which can generate NMIs is active. You have to prevent
Jan 25 12:13:52 arch-shuttle kernel: vboxdrv: the usage of hardware performance counters by
Jan 25 12:13:52 arch-shuttle kernel: vboxdrv:   echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid
[root@arch-shuttle log]#

At 01:07:48 I was sound asleep. I had left the computer on with Rhapsody (a streaming music service that requires the Flash plug-in) going through a 75-minute play list of piano trios. In the past when I did something like that, I fired up a utility called GShutdown to turn the computer off at 1:00 or so. Arch is a little more finicky about shutdown rights, so I just left the thing on.

Firefox -- or Flash -- kept sucking up memory. I've never noticed this when I've been actually at the keyboard (I keep a little system monitor in the Gnome panel, and right now I'm at a usage of 137 MiB, or just short of 7%, and I've been flipping between Firefox, the terminal emulator, and Emacs for the last hour), so it seems like Firefox went nuts when it was just sitting there with nothing to do.

I woke up the other morning with Firefox gone, just like this morning. I didn't have time to look at the log file that morning, and didn't think of it until I'd already committed some other forms of abuse, but it was the same scenario.

This doesn't explain everything that's happening, but it explains some things, y' think?

[Eggdog]

You're my everything.log, you're my e-ver-ree-thing.log....

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[root@arch-shuttle log]# tail everything.log
Jan 25 12:14:22 arch-shuttle kernel: groups: 1 0
Jan 25 12:14:22 arch-shuttle gnome-session[1626]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name
Jan 25 12:14:22 arch-shuttle gnome-session[1626]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name
Jan 25 12:14:22 arch-shuttle kernel: integrated sync not supported
Jan 25 12:14:22 arch-shuttle kernel: integrated sync not supported
Jan 25 12:14:23 arch-shuttle kernel: integrated sync not supported
Jan 25 12:14:24 arch-shuttle kernel: fuse init (API version 7.13)
Jan 25 12:14:26 arch-shuttle gnome-session[1626]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'vboxclient.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "/usr/bin/VBoxClient-all" (No such file or directory)
Jan 25 12:17:01 arch-shuttle crond[1594]: FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root PID 1844 job sys-hourly
Jan 25 12:54:45 arch-shuttle -- MARK --
[root@arch-shuttle log]#

I'll be around today off and on, but tomorrow I have to take Mrs. Eggdog up to Boston for a medical consultation, so if it appears like I've suddenly lost interest in this thread, that's what happened. I'll be back on Wednesday.

Eddie

This post has been edited by Eggdog: Jan 25 2010, 02:30 PM

[Eggdog]

Well, here's some more stuff going on:

I looked at tty1 and saw several messages. These are similar to what I saw yesterday, but they are not showing up in any of the log files, so I had to transcribe the examples below by hand. I believe these are related to Xorg, since I initiate the startx command from this terminal.

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evolution-shell-WARNING **: The name org.FreeDesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
(firefox:1908) gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_invalidate_rect_full: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
(firefox:1908) gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_text_buffer_get_insert: assertion 'GTK_IS_TEXT_BUFFER (buffer)' failed

There were several more gdk- and gtk-related criticals of that nature, too many to transcribe.

CODE

(firefox:7841) GLib-WARNING: g-set-progname() called multiple times
(evolution:7882) DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s
(evolution:7882) DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution

I moved over to tty2 and tailed some more log files. One of them displayed high-ASCII characters of the type I used to see while looking at .dbf files in very early versions of XTree. I got out of that file, logged out as root, logged in as me, and the high-ASCII characters, combined with a few legible characters (the Password: prompt looked like ????????Pa????????:, where ? could be anything). Is that normal?

Yesterday, I reported that my graphical desktop was on tty8 (Ctrl-Alt-F8). Today, it's back on tty7, where it belongs.

I'm getting confused, even by my standards, where the Boolean value of "confusion" never changes

Eddie