Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Alexandre Lymberopoulos
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A patch to suppress the WARN information will be in 2.6.28 when the > user does something stupid (i.e., yank out a USB stick without > unmounting the filesystem first). This was done mainly to suppress > the "scary message

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Alexandre Lymberopoulos
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, this far. Just till that point... ;-) > Did you sync the device? From the message, it seems that some data were to > be written to the device, but the device was already gone by that time, but > I'm not a specialist

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Solving this problem for desktop users is harder; probably the best > > thing you can do is to throw up "shame" dialog box telling them that > > the

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Jon Smirl
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Solving this problem for desktop users is harder; probably the best > thing you can do is to throw up "shame" dialog box telling them that > they did Something Wrong, and while they may have gotten lucky this > time, that n

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:35:00PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I don't know if you would call it a bug or not. Fundamentally, > > yanking out a USB stick without unmounting it first is dangerous, and > > can lead to data loss. > > At least sync'ing... I'm loath to suggest "just syncing", bec

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Rogério Brito
First of all, Thanks Theodore. On Oct 21 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:10AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Did you sync the device? From the message, it seems that some data were > > to be written to the device, but the device was already gone by that > > time, but I'm

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:10AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 20 2008, Alexandre Lymberopoulos wrote: > > It's not a memory stick, it's a hard disk with ext3 file system. I > > just plugged it it and the disk was automatically mounted in /dev/ext3 > > with no abnormal messages in dmesg. >

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 20 2008, Alexandre Lymberopoulos wrote: > It's not a memory stick, it's a hard disk with ext3 file system. I > just plugged it it and the disk was automatically mounted in /dev/ext3 > with no abnormal messages in dmesg. Ok, this far. > That weird messages appeared when I unpplugged the dis

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-20 Thread Alexandre Lymberopoulos
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Alexandre. Hi there, Rogério! > As these messages indicate something going wild in kernelland (due to the > stack trace), I'm CC'ing the linux-kernel mailing list. It is probably > triggered by something probably not

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-17 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Alexandre. On Oct 18 2008, Alexandre Lymberopoulos wrote: > Package: usbmount > Severity: normal (...) > [32282.607205] wmnetload[6372]: segfault at 1 ip b7db75a9 sp bfdfc288 error 4 > in libc-2.7.so[b7d41000+155000] > [39070.466297] usb 5-2: USB disconnect, address 3 > [39071.159613] Buffer

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-17 Thread Rogério Brito
Would you please add some contents and context where the bug occurred, in what situation etc? This would ease chasing the bug. Thanks, -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algo