I just installed 5.3 on a tower box. When I plug in a usb flash drive, the machine crashes. I don't know how to diagnose the problem; I used gnome-system-log, and got this (watching it as I plugged it in):
Apr 12 16:43:25 ga7zx kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Apr 12 16:43:25 ga7zx kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Apr 12 16:43:27 ga7zx kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
As this point, the whole system becomes an ice cube - I can't even 3-finger salute to reboot. This happened a few times - same result.
The board is a Gigabyte with an AMD Athlon 1.3 GHz cpu. Be aware that this drive works fine on 3 other boxes (with 5.3, Fedora 7, and Fedora 8).
What could be wrong? What else should I check? How do I fix it?
Michael Klinosky wrote:
What could be wrong? What else should I check? How do I fix it?
Sounds like a kernel panic of some kind, either hook up a serial console to the system and watch the console from another machine or switch back to a normal terminal (CTRL+ALT+<F1>) and plug it in and see what you get.
Serial console is best as you can easily copy/paste the crash output.
You could also try kdump - http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-6039
nate
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Michael Klinosky mpk2@enter.net wrote:
I just installed 5.3 on a tower box. When I plug in a usb flash drive, the machine crashes. I don't know how to diagnose the problem; I used gnome-system-log, and got this (watching it as I plugged it in):
Possibly not helpful, but --
I've had this happen when using the front-panel USB ports on a couple of different towers. It does not happen on the same machines using the USB ports in the back, leading me to believe that there's a physical problem with the front-panel connections; induction from the USB to reset wires, or some such.
Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Michael Klinosky mpk2@enter.net wrote:
I just installed 5.3 on a tower box. When I plug in a usb flash drive, the machine crashes. I don't know how to diagnose the problem; I used gnome-system-log, and got this (watching it as I plugged it in):
Possibly not helpful, but --
I've had this happen when using the front-panel USB ports on a couple of different towers. It does not happen on the same machines using the USB ports in the back, leading me to believe that there's a physical problem with the front-panel connections; induction from the USB to reset wires, or some such.
more likely, the front panel wiring isn't up to USB 2.0 specs and can't handle 480Mbit/sec, so protocol data gets corrupted during high speed transfers, causing the driver to take a dump in kernel space
nate wrote:
Sounds like a kernel panic of some kind, either hook up a serial console to the system and watch the console from another machine or switch back to a normal terminal (CTRL+ALT+<F1>) and plug it in and see what you get.
Serial console is best as you can easily copy/paste the crash output.
You could also try kdump - http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-6039
Cool! Thank you.
Bart Schaefer wrote:
I've had this happen when using the front-panel USB ports on a couple of different towers. It does not happen on the same machines using the USB ports in the back, leading me to believe that there's a physical problem with the front-panel connections; induction from the USB to reset wires, or some such.
Well, that's not the case here. I'm using the on-board jack (on the rear).
I could try a USB optical drive, to see if the usb system works (i.e. hardware, chips, OS).
Btw, that box is at a remote location that I visit about once a month (thus, it'll be another month till I can check it).
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