Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14020] New: Stack trace when running smartctl on an USB disk

["Rogério Brito" <rbrito-qczF+2RCDl1fyO9Q7EP/yw@public.gmane.org>]

Hi, Andrew & Co.

On Aug 20 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:13:27 GMT
> bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Trying to see the status of a drive of mine that is in an USB enclosure, I
> > issued the command:
> > 
> >   # smartctl -d usbcypress -a /dev/sda
> > 
> > What I got in return was:
> > 
> > "task smartctl:1513 blocked for more than 120 seconds" with a subsequent stack
> > trace, listed below.
> 
> Yup, that's a bug.

Thanks for the confirmation.

> I assume that smartctl never recovered?

Yes, sorry for not mentioning this explicitly. smartctl hang there and
was uninterruptible. :-(

> I don't know if it's a scsi bug or a usb bug.  Probably the latter?

Again, just reiterating, what I said before, even though I am not sure
if I can reproduce it, I will try to.

And if any further information about my hardware is needed, please, just
let me know.


Thanks, Rogério Brito.

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