Re: mounting USB drive: "FIFO stuck"

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

Sorry to follow up with added information. The "FIFO stuck" is
actually more widespread than just when trying to mount a usb drive. 

It also occurs when I try to print:

When I do: 

     $ echo "hello" >> /dev/lp0

The command just hangs. In /var/log/debug and in dmesg I get:

  teufel kernel: parport0: FIFO is stuck
  teufel kernel: parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio

And it occurs when cron runs fetchmail, which in turn runs
amavisd/clamav, which "Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl"

I find in /var/log/syslog, every half hour when I have cron does a
fetchmail for me:

  teufel /USR/SBIN/CRON[19163]: (brownh) CMD (fetchmail)
  teufel postfix/smtpd[19166]: connect from
    localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
  ...
  teufel amavis[19188]: (19188-02) Clam Antivirus-clamd: 
    Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: 
    No such file or directory, retrying (2)
  teufel amavis[19188]: (19188-02) Clam Antivirus-clamd av-scanner
    FAILED: Too many retries to talk to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl 
    (Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: 
    No such file or directory) at (eval 39) line 180.
  teufel amavis[19188]: (19188-02) WARN: all primary virus scanners 
    failed, considering backups
  ...
  teufel postfix/local[19177]: 11EEAA45:
    to=<brownh@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>, 
    relay=local, delay=0, status=sent 
    (delivered to command: procmail -a "$EXTENSION")
  teufel postfix/qmgr[3297]: 11EEAA45: removed
  teufel kernel: parport0: FIFO is stuck
  teufel kernel: parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio
  teufel kernel: parport0: FIFO is stuck

and I get a repeat of these last two lines every 30 seconds until the
cycle repeats itself when fetchmail runs again in half an hour.

Again, the parport_pc and parport modules are loaded and being used.

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       Haines Brown
       KB1GRM