Hi all, I have a Sansa Clip+ and sometimes when I transfer files to it (connected via USB), unmounting and unplugging it from my machine produces a loud beep and a crash. When this occurs, X goes away, and I am left with a full-screen console-like display which shows a bunch of error messages and everything is frozen. My only alternative is to hard power of the box. Obviously, this is undesirable.
Unfortunately, there is I know of no way to capture the console-like screen's content. (I am sure the output must live somewhere within my various logs, but I have no idea where.) The last time this occurred, once I had transferred files to the device, from within a terminal window I ran brian@saul:~$ bash brian@saul:~$ sudo sync && sudo umount /media/PLAYERSD/ && sudo umount /media/SA* && sudo -k && exit (I use "umount /media/SA*" as the player has the device name "/media/SANSA CLIPP" and the SA* is the easiest way to cope with the evil space in the device name. I sudo'd the sync so that I could go make coffee, knowing the sudo on the umounts would work as the sudo permission from the sync was still active.) I did not unplug the device until the exit command had run and returned me to the shell from which I ran bash in the first place. I then ran brian@saul:~$ df |grep media to verify that the device had indeed been unmounted. Only then did I unplug. A BEEP and a frozen system resulted. I don't understand why unplugging after the umount produces this behaviour. Here is some basic system information: brian@saul:~$ uname -srvmpio && cat /etc/issue && cat /etc/debian_version Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 20:46:44 UTC 2012 x86_64 unknown unknown GNU/Linux CrunchBang Linux statler \n \l 6.0.4 I imagine that there is more information that it would be helpful to give; sadly, I don't know what that would be. Any debugging or fixing pointers gratefully received :-) Best, Brian vdB _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
