Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-23 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 10:18 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 10:03:54 -0400 > George N. White III wrote: > > > It could be helpful to see if the "trash" is still present in the > previous > > kernel. Also, with the new kernal do you see a readable message in > > the place where you

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 10:03:54 -0400 George N. White III wrote: > It could be helpful to see if the "trash" is still present in the previous > kernel. Also, with the new kernal do you see a readable message in > the place where you were getting "trash"? It was definitely still there in

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-23 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 9:57 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > I added a note to the bugzilla yesterday: > > Since I got the update to kernel 6.0.9-300.fc37.x86_64, > I don't see any trash on the screen (in the one boot I've > done so far, hopefully in future boots as well). > It could be helpful to see

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-23 Thread Tom Horsley
I added a note to the bugzilla yesterday: Since I got the update to kernel 6.0.9-300.fc37.x86_64, I don't see any trash on the screen (in the one boot I've done so far, hopefully in future boots as well). ___ users mailing list --

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-22 Thread Felix Miata
None of my installations use rhgb, quiet, splash=silent, or plymouth, and I've not noticed this. However, there's not much to notice since simpledrm showed up. The screen stays black many times longer than it spends displaying a short list of boot messages before X starts. My initrds exclude

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-22 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:24 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:14:22 + > Barry wrote: > > > I have multiple systems upgraded and do not see this. > > Suspect not one is looking but you. > > Is the binary stuff in the dmesg output as well? > > Doesn't seem to be, just shows up on

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-22 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:15:32 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:55:02 -0700 > stan via users wrote: > > > I took a look at your attached output in that bugzilla, and I don't > > see any random characters in that output. > > Talking about the screen shot or the journal dump?

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:55:02 -0700 stan via users wrote: > I took a look at your attached output in that bugzilla, and I don't see > any random characters in that output. Talking about the screen shot or the journal dump? The random trash doesn't show up in the journal, the screen shot is the

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-22 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 12:23:55 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:14:22 + > Barry wrote: > > > I have multiple systems upgraded and do not see this. > > Suspect not one is looking but you. > > Is the binary stuff in the dmesg output as well? > > Doesn't seem to be, just

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/21/22 07:41, Tom Horsley wrote: New f37 install. Turned off rhgb and quiet boot options. Now interspersed with the "normal" boot messages, I get blocks of strange gibberish characters spewed on the screen from time to time, like something just wrote a bunch of random binary data. Doesn't

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:31:02 + Barry wrote: > Is the gibberish always in the same place in the boot sequence? > Is the gibberish the same each time? Hard to know for sure, but it seems randomly placed, though it looks kind of like the same sort of gibberish everywhere it appears.

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Barry
> On 21 Nov 2022, at 22:15, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-11-21 at 14:51 -0500, Charles Dennett wrote: >> >> >>> On 11/21/22 14:19, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >>> >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:41:27 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: Anyone looking at this, or is

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Barry
> On 21 Nov 2022, at 18:57, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:26:56 + > Barry wrote: > >> I would guess hardware problem. >> What GPU does the system have? >> >> can you share a screen shot somewhere showing the issue? > > There is a screen shot attached to the bugzilla. It

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2022-11-21 at 14:51 -0500, Charles Dennett wrote: > > > On 11/21/22 14:19, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:41:27 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > > > Anyone looking at this, or is it too trivial to bother? > > > > I see that too, and since at

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Charles Dennett
On 11/21/22 14:19, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:41:27 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: Anyone looking at this, or is it too trivial to bother? I see that too, and since at least f36. Haven't investigate at all :-( Yeah, I see that too. I think I've seen it for

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Thomas
Hello, I have seen odd characters at shutdown, never looked much at start up, see the question I had posted on stackexchange: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/718066/weird-characters-and-%C5%AB-at-shutdown TL;DR, I don't see them when I shutdown from a virtual terminal even if I have

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:41:27 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > Anyone looking at this, or is it too trivial to bother? I see that too, and since at least f36. Haven't investigate at all :-( -- francis ___ users mailing list --

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:26:56 + Barry wrote: > I would guess hardware problem. > What GPU does the system have? > > can you share a screen shot somewhere showing the issue? There is a screen shot attached to the bugzilla. It would be a very unusual hardware issue since it doesn't happen when

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Lester Petrie
On 11/21/2022 12:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:14:22 + Barry wrote: I have multiple systems upgraded and do not see this. Suspect not one is looking but you. Is the binary stuff in the dmesg output as well? Doesn't seem to be, just shows up on the screen. I submitted a

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Barry
> On 21 Nov 2022, at 17:24, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:14:22 + > Barry wrote: > >> I have multiple systems upgraded and do not see this. >> Suspect not one is looking but you. >> Is the binary stuff in the dmesg output as well? > > Doesn't seem to be, just shows up on

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:14:22 + Barry wrote: > I have multiple systems upgraded and do not see this. > Suspect not one is looking but you. > Is the binary stuff in the dmesg output as well? Doesn't seem to be, just shows up on the screen. I submitted a bugzilla just for the heck of it (but it

Re: blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Barry
> On 21 Nov 2022, at 15:41, Tom Horsley wrote: > > New f37 install. Turned off rhgb and quiet boot options. Now > interspersed with the "normal" boot messages, I get blocks > of strange gibberish characters spewed on the screen from time > to time, like something just wrote a bunch of random

blocks of random characters spewed during boot?

2022-11-21 Thread Tom Horsley
New f37 install. Turned off rhgb and quiet boot options. Now interspersed with the "normal" boot messages, I get blocks of strange gibberish characters spewed on the screen from time to time, like something just wrote a bunch of random binary data. Doesn't seem to hurt anything, but it sure is