I suspended my system at 20:47 . After wake up the tiemstamps in the syslog are wrong: Sep 4 20:47:29 n22 sm-mta[8596]: accepting connections again for daemon MTA Sep 4 20:47:29 n22 sm-mta[8596]: accepting connections again for daemon MSA Sep 4 21:16:42 n22 Stopping tasks: =============================================================================| Sep 4 21:16:42 n22 radeonfb (0000:01:00.0): suspending to state: 3... Sep 4 21:16:42 n22 Back to C! Sep 4 21:16:42 n22 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1d.0 (0000 -> 0001) Sep 4 21:16:42 n22 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 The line " ... suspending to state: 3..." should have a time stamp of 20:47 instead of 21:16, isn't it ? I filed a kernel bug at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4648 but got no answer. Is this rather a bug of gentoo or is it a general problem of the linux kernel ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. n22 ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi aim alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cardbus cddb cdparanoia crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode ethereal fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 jai java javascript jimi jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww live mad mbox mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-s ncurses network nls no-old-linux ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl slp smime snmp spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis webdav wifi xanim xfs xine xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
sounds like the message is generated in the kernel buffer but syslog doesnt have a chance to log it and stamp it before the machine shuts off so, if the above is true, there really isnt anything that can be done about it
Looking at the upstream bug, it happens w/ other loggers as well, so comment #1 seems correct. Closing CANTFIX.
