I was not able to boot my system with v3.18-rc1-utopic, but I've tested Fedora 21 beta with kernel 3.17.1-302.fc21 and the problem still was there. I also noticed that the error was reported when my DVD was ejected after successful burning (AFAIR), too.
** Tags added: kernel-unable-to-test-upstream ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- 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/1385165 Title: "Exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen" when playing media Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: OS: Linux Mint 17 XFCE 64-bit Also happens on: Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon 64-bit, Xubuntu 14.04.1 64-bit, Fedora 20.1 64-bit, Xubuntu 14.10 64-bit Repro: Just play some media, e.g. Internet radio using Quodlibet. Results: The following is being printed to kern.log over and over again: kernel: [ 988.235415] ata5: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen kernel: [ 988.235426] ata5: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed kernel: [ 988.235433] ata5: SError: { DevExch } kernel: [ 988.235447] ata5: hard resetting link kernel: [ 988.957529] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) kernel: [ 988.973445] ata5: EH complete kernel: [ 989.066799] ata5: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen kernel: [ 989.066811] ata5: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed kernel: [ 989.066818] ata5: SError: { DevExch } kernel: [ 989.066832] ata5: hard resetting link kernel: [ 991.552650] ata5: COMRESET failed (errno=-32) kernel: [ 991.552665] ata5: reset failed (errno=-32), retrying in 8 secs kernel: [ 999.062192] ata5: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps kernel: [ 999.062206] ata5: hard resetting link kernel: [ 999.978013] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) kernel: [ 999.993952] ata5: EH complete Expected results: No SATA errors happening because of media playback. Frequency: Few times a second. Reproducibility: 100% Additional notes: The problem does not occur neither on Linux Mint 15 64-bit nor on Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1385165/+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