[Clfs-dev] Questions on SVN-20081112-PowerPC64-Multilib on ps3

[John Frankish]

At 21:29 23-11-08, you wrote:
>John Frankish wrote:
> >> 1. During boot, there are many, many messages of the format:
> >>
> >> vol_id(909): read seekbuf off: 0x40000 len 0x800
> >> vol_id(909): probing at offset 0x0
> >> vol_id(909): get buffer off 0x0(0), len 0x200
> >>
> >> Any ideas where this comes from?
>
>They come from udev running vol_id, but they're actually printed by code
>in glibc, specifically syslog (udev logs to syslog, which apparently
>thinks it needs to write to the screen in some cases).
>
>I saw the same thing inside initramfs on a system with a really old
>glibc (was upgrading it to kernel 2.6 -- finally -- and part of the
>upgrade was a udev install).  According to the patch I saved (but never
>submitted anywhere: I figured the problem was the age of glibc), I
>removed the messages by changing udev/udev.h (logging_init) to remove
>the LOG_CONS flag from openlog.
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Thanks for the reply.

Sorry to be dense - but if I understand correctly, you're saying that 
I need to recompile udev after first hacking udev/udev.h as described 
above? Note that this is with glibc-2.8

Is it possible to modify/add a start-up script to prevent this issue?

John