B Wooster wrote: > On Slackware, Kernel 2.4.x, this worked - I could connect a USB storage > device that held a SD memory card. I could mount it, copy files, move > files, etc. > > Under the latest Fedora FC3 release, as soon as I connect this device, > the whole computer locks up. Can't do anything, expect power cycle. > Looked at all the logs (messages, boot.log) after the power cycle, see > nothing related to the lock up. > > uname -a: > 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > > Anyone have any ideas I could try to at least capture some info on why > it is locking up, if not any ideas on how to fix the problem? Are you in graphics mode at the time? Have you tried using Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text terminal, then plugging in the USB device? I suspect you're getting a kernel panic. In such cases Linux *won't* write to disk (it's no longer sure that kernel memory is in a sane state, so it isn't sure that the disk routines won't write Rhapsody in Blue over the partition table). The Linux kernel will write kernel panic data onto a text terminal. But it doesn't know how to do this if the console is in graphics mode. You can use Shift+Page UP and Shift+Page Down to scroll through the kernel panic data. Take a photo of it, or write it down. If you do get a kernel panic, please bugzilla it, and include the data you copied from the screen. (Use http://bugzilla.redhat.com). Then the appropriate developers should get to see it. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | "I blame the teachers, and I blame the politicians @westexe.demon.co.uk | for picking the teachers, and I blame the parents | for voting them in, and top of the list I put the | bastard who invented the caps-lock key." | -- Chris Hacking
