Hi, I'm seeing some really weird problems on my system. I don't know if they're at all related, but I'll report them both in the same email, in case they are.
1) tail -f stops working - I see the tail of the file, but it fails to refresh when content is added to the file. What on earth could be causing this? This is tail from coreutils - nothing fancy, no inotify dependency, just simple polling of the file! 2) The system stops properly recognizing and activating external devices (USB) that I plug in. The kernel sees them correctly, as seen in syslog / dmesg (after I stopped using 'tail -f' for this ...) - it reports information like the physical attributes and partition table of my external disk, and the brand of my external mouse, but the devices don't actually start working - I can't do anything with the disk, and the mouse's light won't even turn on. I tried removing and reinserting various modules, and restarting udev and various other services, and eventually got my disk to come online (but the mouse is still dead). Both these problems go away when I reboot, but seem to eventually return, at least sometimes. I have no idea of any trigger event. This is a laptop, which I frequently suspend (disk) and resume. Kernel is 2.6.31-rc8 from upstream. Anyone have any ideas of where I can look to try to track this stuff down? Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
