Bug#467009: linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64: mounting /cdrom froze the system and corrupted the X server
severity 467009 important
thanks
since the CD-ROM is completely unusable with this kernel and
boot time is very slow due to all these timeouts on /dev/hda.
On 2008-02-22 14:35:23 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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.
These problems could be related to the nvidia-* packages (now
removed since they weren't necessary).
> > 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
With linux-image-2.6.18-4-686-bigmem (when the machine was installed
in 32 bits, with the *same* hardware), there was no problem either,
and dmesg gave:
hda: PHILIPS DVD+/-RW DVD8801, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
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