Bug#299553: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: plugging in disk freezes /proc/bus/usb

[Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org>]

Greg Kochanski writes...

> Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686
> Version: 2.6.8-13
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> When I plug in a LaCie 40Gb USB 2.0 disk, which is a SCSI disk
> transported over USB, the entire USB subsystem seems to freeze.
> Specifically, cat /proc/bus/usb/devices never exits,
> usbview never puts up its window, etc.
> These process are unkillable via
> sudo kill -9 NNNNN.

Can you provide lspci and lsusb output?
Do you have another system (same or different) running the same kernel
 that you can try plugging the drive into?
Can you try a newer kernel from unstable and see if it has the problem?
Do you have a different USB drive you try plugging in the system?
These things might help narrow down the problem, please post
whatever results you have time to gather.
FYI There are some known problems with certain usb chipsets in 2.6.8,
SiS in particular.

Thanks,

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Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org