Hi Boris, Boris Barbour wrote:
> If a cdrom is inserted, things work for a short while. I can for instance > read one or two > files on the CD. But, invariably, it stops working and a number of error > messages are logged. > Typical messages are: [...] > [ 446.575346] ata6.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 > frozen [...] > [ 451.728172] ata6.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x5) [...] > [ 492.197355] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sr0 [...] > (Then quite a few more of these. They continue after the cd has been reomved.) > > I have tried another drive and get the same errors, so I don't think the > problem is > related to the drive itself. A harddisk is attached to the same controller, > making > a controller error a little less likely. > > The problem has been around for a while. Less than a year, but certainly for > several > kernel versions. Was this a regression? I think our best bet for this is to get help from upstream. So: - Please try the latest kernel available from squeeze. If it works, we can declare victory (yay!). Otherwise, the next step would be: - To try a 3.x.y kernel from sid or experimental. The only packages needed from outside squeeze in order to do this are the kernel image itself, linux-base, and initramfs-tools. If it exhibits the same problem, we can forward this upstream. - Otherwise, could you try a few kernels halfway between from <http://snapshot.debian.org/> to narrow down when the fix was introduced? Once we find a relevant patch, we can try applying it to squeeze. Thanks for reporting, and sorry for the very slow response. Sincerely, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120125221435.GA2486@burratino
