Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 20 2008, Alexandre Lymberopoulos wrote: It's not a memory stick, it's a hard disk with ext3 file system. I just plugged it it and the disk was automatically mounted in /dev/ext3 with no abnormal messages in dmesg. Ok, this far. That weird messages appeared when I unpplugged the disk

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:10AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: On Oct 20 2008, Alexandre Lymberopoulos wrote: It's not a memory stick, it's a hard disk with ext3 file system. I just plugged it it and the disk was automatically mounted in /dev/ext3 with no abnormal messages in dmesg. Ok,

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Rogério Brito
First of all, Thanks Theodore. On Oct 21 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:10AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: Did you sync the device? From the message, it seems that some data were to be written to the device, but the device was already gone by that time, but I'm not a

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:35:00PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: I don't know if you would call it a bug or not. Fundamentally, yanking out a USB stick without unmounting it first is dangerous, and can lead to data loss. At least sync'ing... I'm loath to suggest just syncing, because if

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solving this problem for desktop users is harder; probably the best thing you can do is to throw up shame dialog box telling them that they did Something Wrong, and while they may have gotten lucky this time, that next

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solving this problem for desktop users is harder; probably the best thing you can do is to throw up shame dialog box telling them that they did

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Alexandre Lymberopoulos
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, this far. Just till that point... ;-) Did you sync the device? From the message, it seems that some data were to be written to the device, but the device was already gone by that time, but I'm not a specialist on

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Alexandre Lymberopoulos
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A patch to suppress the WARN information will be in 2.6.28 when the user does something stupid (i.e., yank out a USB stick without unmounting the filesystem first). This was done mainly to suppress the scary message in

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-20 Thread Alexandre Lymberopoulos
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Alexandre. Hi there, Rogério! As these messages indicate something going wild in kernelland (due to the stack trace), I'm CC'ing the linux-kernel mailing list. It is probably triggered by something probably not

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Alexandre. On Oct 18 2008, Alexandre Lymberopoulos wrote: Package: usbmount Severity: normal (...) [32282.607205] wmnetload[6372]: segfault at 1 ip b7db75a9 sp bfdfc288 error 4 in libc-2.7.so[b7d41000+155000] [39070.466297] usb 5-2: USB disconnect, address 3 [39071.159613] Buffer I/O

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-17 Thread Rogério Brito
Would you please add some contents and context where the bug occurred, in what situation etc? This would ease chasing the bug. Thanks, -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: