From: Stefan Behrens <sb2004@freenet.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FC3 system hangs after inserting USB stick
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 07:50:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B40F3D.1000903@freenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41B347C1.2000306@freenet.de>
Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 18:39 +0100, Stefan Behrens wrote:
>
>>I have repeated problems with a hanging FC 3 system after inserting
>>a USB 2.0 memory stick. Sometimes I just cannot mount the FS, sometimes
>>the whole machine hangs when trying to mount. In such case, none of the
>>Ctrl-Alt keystrokes works. I had to press the reset button on my box.
>>I'm running FC 3 with stock kernel 2.6.9 and udev upgraded to
>>udev-039-10.FC3.1.i386.rpm.
>>
>>However, this does not seem to be a 2.6 problem, I had similar effects
>>with the same stick on a notebook running 2.4.27 (upgraded FC1).
>>In one case even the power button didn't work and I had to remove the
>>battery ....
>
>
>>Any idea? This really shouldn't happen.
>
>
> It's not a hotplug or udev related problem.
>
> We got several reports like that. Seems like something is(was) wrong
> with usb-storage device removal (only the first connect is successful).
> Some people reported, that "eject /dev/sda" before unplugging prevented
> the error.
>
> I've had the same problem here but it's gone with kernel 2.6.10*, so I
> never looked into the real reason for it. :)
>
Ok, I'll try 2.6.10. But note that the problem does not occur
when unplugging the stick, but when I plug it *in*.
Thanks&br
/Stefan.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-06 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-05 17:39 FC3 system hangs after inserting USB stick Stefan Behrens
2004-12-05 17:52 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-06 7:50 ` Stefan Behrens [this message]
2004-12-06 9:40 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-06 9:48 ` Stefan Behrens
2004-12-06 9:58 ` Kay Sievers
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