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Hello,

I've been getting the following dumped into my shell every time I try to use the Terminal.
Gerald-Byrnes-Mac-2 is the name of this machine.
Broadcast Message from root@Gerald-Byrness-Mac-2.local
(no tty) at 21:23 MST...

Sep 27 21:23:17 Gerald-Byrness-Mac-2 kernel[0]:


Broadcast Message from root@Gerald-Byrness-Mac-2.local
(no tty) at 21:24 MST...

Sep 27 21:24:47 Gerald-Byrness-Mac-2 kernel[0]:


Broadcast Message from root@Gerald-Byrness-Mac-2.local
(no tty) at 21:26 MST...

Sep 27 21:26:12 Gerald-Byrness-Mac-2 kernel[0]:


Broadcast Message from root@Gerald-Byrness-Mac-2.local
(no tty) at 21:26 MST...

Sep 27 21:26:36 Gerald-Byrness-Mac-2 kernel[0]:




I've been looking for answers, as usually google is my friend in this kind of situation, but to no avail. I've found slightly similar posts, but not my actual problem.

Yes, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 27, 2010 9:50 PM

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Oct 6, 2010 6:23 PM in response to KXsig

I am getting the same message...new behavior for this machine. Can you be more specific which file is to be changed and how? I am not really running anything in unix explicitly (except of course the OS :P)...just pop open terminal and the same message with my root directory chimes all day long. Also I have seen other posts but not much of any answers as to what is happening...

Some people are saying disk may be corrupt or somesuch. Anyway, can you give a better location for the log to edit? a search in finder reveals nothing.

Oct 6, 2010 6:27 PM in response to Jeremiahsmith

in sys profiler, the sys log also has the following kernal messages (just a sample)
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: do jnlio: strategy err 0x6
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: egy err 0x6
Oct 6 18:27:11: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: replay_journal: Could not read block list header block @ 0x7dfa00!
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: restarting journal replay (8256000 - 8745984)!
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: replay_journal: from: 8256000 to: 8745984 (joffset 0x1d1c000)
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: th /dev/disk2s2] [FSLogMsgID 662840931] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: ogMsgOrder Last]
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: do jnlio: strategy err 0x6
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: replay_journal: Could not read block li [LBlkNum 75741] [FSLogMsgID 1707784918] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: ng journal replay (8256000 - 8 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode devfs] [MountPt /dev] [Path /d1d1c000)
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: disk2s2: medk2s2] [FSLogMsgID 1562787848] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: [MountPt /dev] [Path /dev/dis00)
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: h /dev/disk2s2] [FSLogMsgID 116ot present.
Oct 6 18:27:11 Buttons-Giffards-Mac-Book-Pro kernel[0]: 63274] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]

Oct 8, 2010 1:07 AM in response to Jeremiahsmith

Hi J,

The messages that are printed on screen are those which are specified to be broadcasted in your /etc/syslog.conf and in your /etc/asl.conf. The syslog.conf set can be as a "tty" path or a "*" . The asl.conf set can (or must - don't know too much) be as "broadcast".
You can comment those lines if you are only getting authentication messages.
I only have this behavior after I set this on those files, if you did not changed them before you should search deeper for the source of those messages.

Good luck and feel welcome to Apple Discussions. 🙂

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