Bug#632088: dd to a usb drive triggers kernel bug

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:21:55AM -0400, Doug Vetter wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
> Version: 2.6.32-35
> 
> Working on a Tyan 5382 system equipped with Debian 6.0.1 AMD64.
> 
> After inserting a common USB-based flash drive into a USB port I
> attempted to raw write a bootable amd64 image generated with
> live-build:
> 
> dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sdb
> 
> where /dev/sdb is the device name assigned to the USB flash drive.
[...]

The kernel error messages indicate memory corruption.  Could be
a hardware or software error.

Have you seen other crashes on this system recently?
 
Can you test the RAM using the memtest86+ package?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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