Subject: Re: USB with iPod freezes machine
To: Teijo =?iso-8859-1?B?UvZua+Q=?= <teijo.ronka@gmail.com>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: current-users
Date: 05/15/2007 17:09:06
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:17:30PM +0300, Teijo Rönkä wrote:
> Hi
> 
> USB seems to freeze my machine(current snapshot 20070504, GENERIC kernel).
> 
> I do the following:
> 1. Connect iPod.
> 2. Mount to /mnt/ipod
> 3. ls /mnt/ipod
> 4. Disconnect iPod
> 5. Reconnect iPod
> 6. Mount iPod
> 7. ls /mnt/ipod
> * freeze *
> 
> The machine freezes totally, and I have to reboot.  The machine
> replies to ping, but I can't log in with ssh.

There are two mount steps without an unmount.  Do you mean you unplug the
ipod while mounted?

> 
> If I do eject /dev/sd0e before disconnecting iPod, then there is no
> problems, and everything works smoothly.
> Is anyone else having the same problem?
> 
> - Teijo