Public bug reported: I'm using a karmic pre-release on x86-64, a Thinkpad X60.
I have an USB external hard drive connector, a Rosewill RU-DU100, that lets one take a SATA drive and attach it over USB. It's listed in lsusb as: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 152d:2329 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. and when plugged in dmesg reads: [ 319.752555] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 [ 319.903869] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 319.960338] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... [ 319.961322] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [ 319.961511] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 319.961515] USB Mass Storage support registered. [ 319.962303] usb-storage: device found at 3 [ 319.962307] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [ 324.960320] usb-storage: device scan complete [ 324.962234] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SAMSUNG HD103SI PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS [ 324.963691] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [ 324.977408] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) [ 324.978727] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 324.978735] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 28 00 00 00 [ 324.978740] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 324.980217] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 324.980225] sdb: sdb1 [ 325.002332] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 325.002340] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk I was running IO against this drive (a mkfs.ext3), and pulled the USB plug out. I happened to be on a terminal at a time, so I got to see a long list of io errors get instantly dumped to the console. Then the computer froze completely. A minute later the console printed "BUG: soft lockup!" -- I don't have the exact error message, but it appeared twice, once claiming CPU#0 was stuck and once claiming CPU#1 was stuck, in both cases for 60 seconds, and with a note in square brackets at the end about [udevd]. Unfortunately (though hardly a surprise) none of the errors made it to kern.log. While pulling out a working drive is hardly *recommended*, it should not crash the computer. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: njs 2354 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xee240000 irq 17' Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981' Components : 'HDA:11d41981,17aa2025,00100200' Controls : 21 Simple ctrls : 12 Date: Thu Oct 15 22:12:58 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=d9372c40-505c-46e5-9b76-329eabd7b79b MachineType: LENOVO 1709CTO Package: linux-image-2.6.31-13-generic 2.6.31-13.43 PccardctlIdent: Socket 0: no product info available PccardctlStatus: Socket 0: no card ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=eb19733d-95e4-4bc0-b78e-b240261bf3a4 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.43-generic RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.21 RfKill: 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no SourcePackage: linux Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64 WpaSupplicantLog: dmi.bios.date: 06/19/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 7BETD6WW (2.17 ) dmi.board.name: 1709CTO dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7BETD6WW(2.17):bd06/19/2008:svnLENOVO:pn1709CTO:pvrThinkPadX60:rvnLENOVO:rn1709CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 1709CTO dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X60 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug -- [karmic] pulling out USB hard drive hard-locked computer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452795 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs