[lug] "testing ports"

[Hugh Brown]

Default setup of redhat is to log kernel messages of a certain severity
level to the console.  This is just your kernel probing the parallel port
and  reporting it to the console. 

I think it might be this line in syslog that is causing it

# Everybody gets emergency messages, plus log them on another
# machine.
*.emerg                                                 *

Hugh


"B O'Fallon"
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have this same messages with RedHat 7.1, but it happens during bootup. It
> happens just before I get the login prompt, with the messages appearing and
> preventing the login prompt from being displayed. However, when I hit
> <Enter>, the prompt will appear and I can log in.
> 
> In their answer to my message to the folks at CUPS, they said this may be
> from serial port drivers that are erroniously putting output to the console
> as the serial port backend scans for serial ports.
> 
> They suggested that I remove the serial port support by deleting the file
> 
>     /usr/lib/cups/backend/serial
> 
> I did, and it did not solve the problem.
> 
> So I just ignore it: it doesn't seem to affect anything and CUPS prints just
> fine. Ain't computers grand? <g>
> 
> You might, however, try updating to a newer version of CUPS (I believe that
> 1.1.10 is the latest) and see if this solves the problem. (This didn't help
> me, but it might be worth a try).
> 
> BOF
> 
> 
> KRITZBERG DAVID OWEN wrote:
> 
> > At the console window, right after entering a print request, this some
> > strange text appeared at my bash prompt.  My prompt reads "[david][david]"
> > and for example I didn't add the ellipses or leave anything out.  I quote
> > verbatim:
> >
> > [david][david] Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0, 370,
> > 250, 4E, 2E ...
> > SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ...
> >