Subject: Re: USB with iPod freezes machine
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Teijo_R=F6nk=E4?= <teijo.ronka@gmail.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/15/2007 18:20:21
On 5/15/07, Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:17:30PM +0300, Teijo R=F6nk=E4 wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > USB seems to freeze my machine(current snapshot 20070504, GENERIC kerne=
l).
> >
> > 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?

Yes, that's correct.  I know I shouldn't do that, but neither should
the machine freeze :)

- Teijo