On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Mark Watson wrote: > I've been running on the new controller for a week now. There is both > good news and bad news! I have had no more of these USB disconnects. > However the whole box has hard locked twice so far. i.e. not able to > ping, apps appear frozen, no response to KB (in X so I can't magic > sysrq I think)... > > Could this be related to the unused broken controller?
Probably not. It might be related to the new controller (if the new controller had a nasty hardware failure mode), but that seems unlikely as well. > I'm going to try an upgrade to the latest stable (2.6.19.1 iirc), in > case there are known freezes with 2.6.18.2. Or perhaps 2.6.16.37 might > be better... Better check memtest86 still passes too. > > Any hints on debugging this kind of thing? If you stay out of X you may see some informative error messages on the console when the freeze occurs. Or you could wire up a second computer as a serial console. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
