Ubuntu and ntpdate, August 2005

Ubuntu Hoary installed ntpdate startup script a strange way that prevented it to work, because launched before pppd daemon. Ubuntu Breezy had the same bug 6 months later.

/etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate

Odd

Envoi d'une requte 'ping' sur www.nasa.fr [127.0.0.1] avec 32 octets de donnesÿ: Rponse de 127.0.0.1ÿ: octets=32 temps<1ms TTL=128 Rponse de 127.0.0.1ÿ: octets=32 temps<1ms TTL=128 Rponse de 127.0.0.1ÿ: octets=32 temps<1ms TTL=128 Rponse de 127.0.0.1ÿ: octets=32 temps<1ms TTL=128 Statistiques Ping pour 127.0.0.1: Paquetsÿ: envoys = 4, reus = 4, perdus = 0 (perte 0%), Dure approximative des boucles en millisecondes : Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Moyenne = 0ms

Vmware Workstation, 28 May 2004

May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: /dev/vmmon: fast clock rate 84 -> 20 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: bridge-eth0: clear IFF_PROMISC May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: port 1 not reset yet, waiting 10ms May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.3: GetStatus roothub. portstatus [1] = 0x00100103 PRSC PPS PES CCS May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: usb 2-1: registering 2-1:1.0 (config #1, interface 0) May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dere ference at virtual address 00000008 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: printing eip: May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: c018654b May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: *pde = 00000000 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: PREEMPT May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: CPU: 0 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: EIP: 0060:[] Tainted: P May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: EFLAGS: 00213296 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: EIP is at sysfs_add_file+0x1b/0xa0 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: cf36e4d4 ecx: c043 d268 edx: cf36e4f8 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: c044 3714 esp: c2c4be28 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: Process vmware-vmx (pid: 19101, threadinf o=c2c4a000 task=cb054140) May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: Stack: cf36e4f8 cf36e4f8 ffffffef cf36e4d 4 00000000 d0732d40 00000001 c027efee May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: 00000000 c0443714 cf36e4d4 cf36e52 c c02ddfce cf36e4d4 c0443714 cf36e4c0 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: c02dc2f4 cf36e4c0 c03c851d cbcf312 4 cf36e52c 00000001 00000000 00000000 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: Call Trace: May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: [] device_create_file+0x3e/0x5 0 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: [] usb_create_driverfs_intf_fi les+0x1e/0x90 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: [] usb_set_configuration+0x224 /0x2b0 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: [] usb_physical_reset_device+0 x198/0x430 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: [] usb_reset_device+0x2d/0x53 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: [] proc_resetdevice+0x15/0xa0 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: [] proc_releaseinterface+0x56/ 0x70 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: [] usbdev_ioctl+0xe2/0x330 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: [] file_ioctl+0x72/0x1a0 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: [] sys_ioctl+0x107/0x2a0 May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: May 28 22:21:54 babs1 kernel: Code: 8b 47 08 8d 48 68 ff 48 68 0f 88 90 01 00 00 8b 45 00 89 3c

1st March 2004

Sound device was blocked by a PDF file I opened by clicking on a link on a Flash page, which has musical background...

# /etc/init.d/alsa restart Storing ALSA mixer settings ... done. Shutting down ALSA (version 1.0.2c): aborting. (sound used by PIDs 27387) babs1:/# ps aux | grep 27387 barbara 27387 0.0 1.5 11352 7732 ? S 18:51 0:03 xpdf.bin /tmp/reglementglobal.pdf root 9532 0.0 0.1 3796 768 pts/0 S 21:00 0:00 grep 27387