weird console output

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:49:08 -0400
Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:02:25AM +0100, Alexander Best wrote:
> > very often when i boot or shutdown my pc i see weird text being output to the
> > console. to me it seems like 2 messages are being mixed into 1 message. here's
> > an example:
> > 
> > "WcAdR0N IaNtG : aWtIaT1N EbSuSs  o0p ttiaorng eetn a1b lleudn,  0e
> > xcpde0c:t  r<eHdLu-cDeTd- SpTe rDfVoDrRmAaMn cGeS.A-
> > H1W0ANR NJILN1G: DIAG2N>O SRTeImCo voapbtlieo nC De-nRaObMl eSdC,S Ie-x0p
> > edcetv irceed uc
> > ecdd 0p:e r3f3o.r0m0a0nMcB/es.
> > transfers"
> > 
> > i'm running FreeBSD moshnroll 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #20 r190162M:
> > Fri Mar 20 19:10:47 UTC 2009     root at moshnroll:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARUNDEL
> > i386, but i've also had this issue under CURRENT. maybe this issue is smp
> > related?
> > 
> > cheers.
> > alex
> 
> You are correct, it is smp related.  Those are two messages interlaced.  I see
> them often when shutting down my SMP system.
> 

This quesion is asked and answered again and again.

Set "options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128" in your kernel config.

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Gary Jennejohn