From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261577AbVGZAy6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:54:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261574AbVGZAy6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:54:58 -0400 Received: from linuxwireless.org.ve.carpathiahost.net ([66.117.45.234]:10710 "EHLO linuxwireless.org.ve.carpathiahost.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261577AbVGZAy6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:54:58 -0400 Message-ID: <42E57BD6.4090006@linuxwireless.org> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:55:02 -0500 From: Alejandro Bonilla User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Debian/1.7.8-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Puneet Vyas CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop. References: <42E58483.2050602@gmail.com> <42E57ACD.8070909@linuxwireless.org> In-Reply-To: <42E57ACD.8070909@linuxwireless.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > Puneet Vyas wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> My Dell 600m has a CD writer attached as a USB device. I need to use >> the same slot to connect my floppy drive. After pulling out the CD >> writer , the machine completely hangs and only hard boot works. I am >> new to reporting bugs so I attached all info as according to >> REPORTING-BUGS. Please let me know if more info is needed.Thanks. >> >> Warm regards, >> Puneet Vyas >> >> PS : I am not even sure if I am "allowed" to pull out the writer like >> this. Am I supposed to "stop" the device first or something? >> > You are supoused to unmount the volume. Try it. umount /dev/cdrom ? > Make sure that is it not in use, then unload it. > New versions of gnome and so have the option to right click the loaded > device and then to unmount. > > It should never hang. Does it hang with the floppy when removed? > > .Alejandro > - > Also, go to a tty (ctrl+alt+f1), login and then unplug the device, If it gives a kernel panic, show the output here. .Alejandro