[mdlug] Lethal hardware

[Jim Broughton]

  I had a problem similar to that once with an external card
reader plugged into the USB port. Once I figured out that
when it was unplugged the system booted just fine I just
had to remember to unplug it before rebooting the system.
It worked fine otherwise as a card reader if Hot plugged unplugged
while the Linux kernel was running.

Jim



On 10/07/2010 09:05 AM, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> I have a *really* cheap card reader hooked up to my Linux box at work. I
> hardly ever use it, but it's come in handy a couple times.
>
> Under Linux, it has always showed a phantom interface that takes forever
> to timeout. Indeed, it would frequently hang the boot process for a
> couple minutes waiting for that timeout. After that, things would be
> fine. Since reboots under Linux are rare, this wasn't a big problem.
>
> Until this morning. I'd updated the kernel and rebooted... and, after
> GRUB, got nothing on the console. Zip. I could ssh in for a little
> while, but then the system would freeze up. *Very* frustrating.
>
> I finally booted with a rescue CD, and got a look at the syslog. I
> noticed it complaining about USB stuff just before the freeze. So, I
> yanked the card reader from the hub, and... everything booted up just
> fine.
>
>   So, a word to the wise. At some point I'll experiment with plugging the
> thing in *after* the system is booted, but for now I've got work to do.
> Figured I'd pass this on as a data point for others who might run into
> similar mysteries...
>
>   Sincerely,
>
>   Ray Ingles                                            (313) 227-2317
>
>    "We have managed to do something our enemies never could: set up
>    architectures of control designed specifically to keep our society
>             from correcting its errors and improving itself.
>
>   No society that does this to itself survives even in the short term.
>   Ours will be no exception, and I for one don't feel a great deal of
>               lament for it anymore." - Jean-Michel Smith
> _______________________________________________
> mdlug mailing list
> mdlug at mdlug.org
> http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug
>