Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

[Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:59:10 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)
> Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:59:47 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:55:45 +0300, Itay wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> > + I couldn't find out anything suspicious in /var/log/syslog.
> >    (But honestly I don't know what to look for: what is kernel
> >     soft-lock?)
>
> here there is a good explanation on what soft/hard locks here (scroll
> down to "A Classification of Kernel Bugs"):
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_kernel

Indeed: the condition I had seemed closest to kernel soft lockup.

> Sorry, I did not find a similar doc for Debian explainig the different
> types for the most common kernel bugs :-P

I thank you for the responsiveness and directions you have provided.

Although in the past the problem appeared quite consistently, in the 
last few days I failed to reproduce the problem.  So I can't test your 
suggestions.  (In a sense these are good news ;-)

Therefore I will suspend the discussion in this thread.
I will send a separate message in this regard.

Thanks,
Itay

> Greetings,