James Hunt, a BIOS update is the first thing upstream asks about if you contact them about an SD Card problem. While it may be perceived as a hassle to some, it would be worth it if it did in fact address your issue (and one major objection dealt with beforehand in order to have upstream take your bug report seriously). :D
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1348716 Title: kernel oops writing image to sd card Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Writing a 3G image to an SD card led to an oops (on both occasions I tried it): $ cat foo.img | sudo dd bs=16M of=/dev/mmcblk0 [36467.181234] Call Trace: [36467.181245] [<ffffffff827596d9>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x29/0x70 [36467.181251] [<ffffffff8275b525>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xd5/0x1d0 [36467.181278] [<ffffffff8275b63f>] mutex_lock+0x1f/0x2f [36467.181283] [<ffffffff822066d3>] __blkdev_get+0x63/0x4c0 [36467.181287] [<ffffffff82206cf5>] blkdev_get+0x1c5/0x340 [36467.181291] [<ffffffff82206f1b>] blkdev_open+0x5b/0x80 [36467.181296] [<ffffffff821cd32f>] do_dentry_open+0x1ff/0x350 [36467.181300] [<ffffffff82206ec0>] ? blkdev_get_by_dev+0x50/0x50 [36467.181303] [<ffffffff821cd5c9>] vfs_open+0x49/0x50 [36467.181309] [<ffffffff821dca94>] do_last+0x554/0x1210 [36467.181317] [<ffffffff823226bb>] ? apparmor_file_alloc_security+0x5b/0x180 [36467.181322] [<ffffffff821dea1b>] path_openat+0xbb/0x620 [36467.181328] [<ffffffff82384d66>] ? sprintf+0x46/0x50 [36467.181333] [<ffffffff821e048a>] do_filp_open+0x3a/0x90 [36467.181340] [<ffffffff821ecff7>] ? __alloc_fd+0xa7/0x130 [36467.181345] [<ffffffff821ceea9>] do_sys_open+0x129/0x280 [36467.181349] [<ffffffff82021b55>] ? syscall_trace_enter+0x145/0x250 [36467.181353] [<ffffffff821cf01e>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20 [36467.181359] [<ffffffff8275d43f>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: linux-image-generic 3.16.0.5.6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-5.10-generic 3.16.0-rc6 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-5-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.4-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: james 3817 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC1: james 3817 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri Jul 25 17:23:47 2014 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=db600bbe-faca-41f4-9338-c3e8e227599a InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-11 (104 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140409) MachineType: LENOVO 20AQCTO1WW ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.16.0-5-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.16.0-5-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.16.0-5-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.132 SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-05-08 (78 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 02/10/2014 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: GJET71WW (2.21 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 20AQCTO1WW dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: 0B98405 STD dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrGJET71WW(2.21):bd02/10/2014:svnLENOVO:pn20AQCTO1WW:pvrThinkPadT440s:rvnLENOVO:rn20AQCTO1WW:rvr0B98405STD:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 20AQCTO1WW dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T440s dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1348716/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
