Bug#467009: linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64: mounting /cdrom froze the system and corrupted the X server
On 2008-02-22 13:47:34 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> After a "mount /cdrom" (corresponding device is /dev/hda), the system
> completely froze. I couldn't reboot with the keyboard. I had to press
> the power button. After the reboot, the X server was no longer working
> (I didn't even get the NVIDIA logo just after typing "startx"). I had
> to reinstall the NVIDIA driver.
>
> Note: in the kernel logs, I get lots of bad messages concerning hda,
> corresponding to the CD-ROM drive. There were no such problems with
> the 2.6.23 kernel I used before (I had to upgrade due to the security
> hole).
I've looked at the dmesg output of the old kernel, and the CD-ROM
drive was seen as a SCSI device.
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
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