On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 22:09 -0500, Stevens wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 July 2007 21:12, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-11-07 17:41]:
> > > > What is the best way to set the timeout to 120 permanently at boot-up
> > > > as is done with echo 120 > /sys/block/sda/device/timeout manually?
> > >
> > > ??? add the line "echo 120 > /sys/block/sda/device/timeout" to
> > > /etc/init.d/boot.local
> > > ???
> > >
> >
> > The problem that I have with this line of logic is that I have no "sda"
> > in /sys/block until AFTER I plug in my flash drive, therefore adding a line
> > in boot.local that references "sda" won't do anything except generate an
> > error message (or nothing at all) if there is no flash drive present at
> > boot,
> > which is the case here.
> >
> > I would think that the same process that detects the flash drive and adds
> > the "sda" directory should also add the proper timeout value.
> >
> > Fred
>
> Makes sense. Could you help out with which process could be used? I know
> that USB at plugin calls klauncher. How can klauncher's start be
> enhanced to add the timeout value. Is there a process that starts before
> klauncher that detects USB?
>
> :-)
> Al
>
I have fortunately got a USB mouse at bootup time. Then Patrick's
suggestion does seem to work for me now, perhaps because the SCSI part
is loaded then.
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BUT, alas, the one newer system froze up again a few times this week. I
could not find any evidence or a RO FS, but KDE was completely locked.
The /sys/block/sda/device/timeout is 120, but the problem is with hdb
mounted as a DVD Burner with a burnt DVD ISO from OpenSUSE (10.2
x86_64).
I logged in per ssh on the frozen system and had a look at the system
messages, disk space and mount points:
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SAW1:~ #tail -f -n50 /var/logs/messages
...
Jul 19 08:27:01 SAW1 kernel: hdb: packet command error: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jul 19 08:27:01 SAW1 kernel: hdb: packet command error: error=0x54
{ AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
Jul 19 08:27:01 SAW1 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jul 19 08:27:01 SAW1 kernel: ATAPI device hdb:
Jul 19 08:27:01 SAW1 kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Jul 19 08:27:01 SAW1 kernel: Cannot read medium - incompatible format --
(asc=0x30, ascq=0x02)
Jul 19 08:27:01 SAW1 kernel: The failed "Read Subchannel" packet command
was:
Jul 19 08:27:01 SAW1 kernel: "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 "
....
Jul 19 08:40:13 SAW1 sshd[28885]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for
root from 192.178.111.75 port 15326 ssh2
...
SAW1:~ # mount
/dev/sdc5 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/sdb3 on /home type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/sdc6 on /home/rls/Data/Data1 type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/sdb4 on /home/rls/Data/Data2 type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/sda4 on /home/rls/Data/Data3 type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/sda3 on /home/rls/Old-OSs/SL10.1 type xfs (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
/dev/hdb on /media/SU1020.001 type iso9660
(ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,utf8)
SAW1:~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc5 15G 9.9G 4.2G 71% /
udev 1.5G 156K 1.5G 1% /dev
/dev/sdb3 31G 20G 11G 67% /home
/dev/sdc6 264G 149G 115G 57% /home/rls/Data/Data1
/dev/sdb4 202G 135G 68G 67% /home/rls/Data/Data2
/dev/sda4 211G 153G 58G 73% /home/rls/Data/Data3
/dev/sda3 20G 16G 4.1G 80% /home/rls/Old-OSs/SL10.1
/dev/hdb 3.7G 3.7G 0 100% /media/SU1020.001
SAW1:~ #
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The DVD is the current openSUSE 10.2 GM DVD x86_64 burnt ISO,
in /dev/hdb (ATAPI device).
Is it a DVD disk error or a DVD Drive error? It is the original
installation DVD I used to install 10.2 on this machine.
Why does it lock down KDE?
I did not access the DVD at all; I wanted to save an OpenOffice 2.2.1
(Build 2.2.0.2) Writer file to HD (/dev/sdc6 - /home/rls/Data/Data1). It
also happened with OOo-Writer version 2.2.0 yesterday.
Any ideas?
:-)
Al
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