Package: pcmciautils Version: 014-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
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As the Card reader does not work with Debian-3.1 on my Acer Aspire 1524
Laptop, I download the Debian Live CD of Testing, 2 days back (made on
29th March). I booted the machine from that all the testing is done
while the machine was running from the CD.
I have an SD card, which I use in my camera and wanted to read that.
When I insert the Card reader (with the SD card in the socket), I get a
Syslog message:
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Apr 1 15:21:50 debian kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
Apr 1 15:21:50 debian kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
excluding 0xa0000000-0xa00fffff
Apr 1 15:21:50 debian kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
Apr 1 15:21:50 debian kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...
Apr 1 15:21:51 debian kernel: hde: Memory Card Adapter, CFA DISK drive
Apr 1 15:21:52 debian kernel: ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3
Apr 1 15:21:52 debian kernel: hde: max request size: 128KiB
Apr 1 15:21:52 debian kernel: hde: 990976 sectors (507 MB) w/1KiB
Cache, CHS=3871/8/32
Apr 1 15:21:52 debian kernel: hde:hde: status error: status=0x7f {
DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index
Error }
Apr 1 15:21:52 debian kernel: hde: status error: error=0x00 { }
Apr 1 15:21:52 debian kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Apr 1 15:21:52 debian kernel: hde: drive not ready for command
Apr 1 15:21:52 debian kernel: ide2: reset: master: error (0x40?)
Apr 1 15:21:52 debian kernel: hde1
Apr 1 15:21:52 debian kernel: ide-cs: hde: Vpp = 0.0
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While starting the test, the card was blank and was formatted in the
camera (the card reader works fine in Windows), and I had copied an
image and a small text file while running Debian CD from my hard disk
without any error. (The name for that file (pict0001.jpg) is seen
below in the output).
After writing the file, I did 'sync.
Then I could open the file with 'gimp' from the '/media/usbdisk/....'
area. However, after unmounting, when I mount it again (this time 'ro'
for safefty),
I get an error while opening it with 'gimp': Corrupt JPEG data: 25
extraneous
bytes before marker 0x0f.
Then it shows Unsupported marker type 0x0f.
('/dev/hde1' is mounted on '/media/usbdisk' as vfat).
Also, 'ls -l /media/usbdisk/dcim/100km006' shows something strange.
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 1980-01-01 00:00 ??
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 1980-01-01 00:00 ???
?--------- ? ? ? ? ?
/media/usbdisk/dcim/100km006/????w??`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1441808 2007-03-31 01:43 pict0001.jpg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13 2007-04-01 00:03 ttab
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Notice several question marks appearing above.
Though 'ls -l' shows the file sizes on hard disk and the SD card to be
the same, 'md5sum' differs between the two. Being curious, I tried
the same again on a different file. Copy a file while being mounted in
'rw' mode, 'sync' and then 'mount -o remount,ro'. Till this step,
'md5sum' remains the same. However, once 'umount' and 'mount' with
either in 'ro' or 'rw', the 'md5sum' differs.
The same repeats for any small Text files.
Once in a while, I have also noticed FAT file system panic:
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Apr 1 15:57:35 debian kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev hde1)
Apr 1 15:57:35 debian kernel: invalid access to FAT (entry
0x0000e001)
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However, I have checked that no error message appeared in 'syslog'
while I mounted the SD card 'rw' to the time I mount it 'ro'.
Note that the same error repeats with Knoppix-5.1.1 Live CD.
Since Data corruption like this without an error message is a Grave
error, I am filing a RC Bug.
However, I am not clear whether the Bug lies in PCMCIA, or in the
respective KERNEL module.
Since both are part of Debian Etch, I am leaving it to the package
maintainer to reassign it to Kernel, if appropriate.
For your possible inspection, I have also attached the output of
'lspci -v' (lspci-v), and 'lsmod' (lsmod) along with this mail.
Subhashis
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages pcmciautils depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii libsysfs2 2.1.0-1 interface library to sysfs
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1
init scrip
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux
kernel mo
Versions of packages pcmciautils recommends:
ii udev 0.105-4 /dev/ and hotplug
management daemo
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lspci-v
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