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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: mount: bad optical disk can place mount command into uninteruptable sleep
- From: "Dallas E. Legan" <aw585@lafn.org>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 04:32:23 -0700
- Message-id: <20150726113223.8741.14495.reportbug@swapper.localdomain>
Package: mount
Version: 2.26.2-6
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
I've found trying to mount an optical disk that turns out to be bad,
(this is the case I've encountered, may possibly happen with other media)
can cause the mount command to go into a noninteruptable sleep state,
waiting for response from the hardware that never arrives.
This latter can interfere in placing the computer in hibernate or
performing a clean shutdown.
My understanding is that the command could alternatively be implimented to
use a "killable" state, similar to the uninteruptable sleep,
except that the process can be killed.
If there are reason's the noninteruptable sleep must be used
most of the time, perhaps providing a switch to enforce
"killable" when the media is of unproven quality would be possible.
Thanks for any consideration.
Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / legan@acm.org / aw585@lafn.org
http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages mount depends on:
ii libblkid1 2.25.2-6
ii libc6 2.19-17
ii libmount1 2.25.2-6
ii libselinux1 2.3-2
ii libsmartcols1 2.25.2-6
mount recommends no packages.
Versions of packages mount suggests:
ii nfs-common 1:1.2.2-4
-- no debconf information
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