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long lines of ^@^@^@ ... in messages and syslog?!? Etch, Sun Sparc U30.

From: s. keeling <keeling(at)nucleus.com>
Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 21:10:31 EDT

This is on a Sun Ultra 30 running Debian Etch Sparc, all SCSI interfaces and Sun hardware (incl. kb & mouse), 256 (?) Mb RAM, 9 Gb HD.

(0) deviant /home/keeling_ free

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        255584     238952      16632          0      13968     146568
-/+ buffers/cache:      78416     177168
Swap:       457832          0     457832

:-) Running Fluxbox, FF, emacs, mrxvt, gkrellm, ... Slick.

I was just looking into the logs on this thing for the first time since installing it (day before yesterday). EOF of both /var/log/messages and syslog both have long lines of ^@^@^@^@ and the latest time stamp is (messages) Oct 28 23:44:02 and (syslog) Oct 30 03:55:25.

Otherwise the box looks mostly alright (functional), but I just tried to install logrotate, and it wildly complains about everything
(obviously), so it's reboot time. Clean shutdown & reboot, and /var's
no longer mounted ro.

That appears to have solved it for now. aptitude's installing logrotate now. Now I see that all the original log entries are there except for the ^@ crap. Something's cleaned them up. Weird.

BTW, both of these boxes are behind a router, and neither of them's seen any non-FLOSS software. I'm happily ssh-ing back and forth with X forwarding.

Anybody have any idea what happened here? What's a better way to sort out what's going on than what I've done? Is this just a flakey scsi drive?

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