Re: Do not know which package bug is in
On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 12:00 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:34 +0100, Robin Oberg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:21 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > > Intermittent failures like that sound more like hardware problems.
> > > I
> > > seem to recall reading that charging devices like that demands more
> > > power than the computer can supply.
> > >
> > > Oliver Elphick
>
> > Would that not mean that the same problem exists in other operating
> > systems as well? But seeing as it works fine to charge this old
> > iPhone 4
> > in Windows, so it does not seem like a hardware malfunction in this
> > particular case.
>
> Not necessarily. It might be that Windows doesn't use a particular area
> of memory that Linux does.
>
> I should go for the other poster's suggestion, of using a powered USB
> hub. If the failures cease, it was a hardware problem.
>
>
Of course, unplugging the device from the USB port stops the crashing,
because the crashing starts when the device is plugged in to begin
with...
If "Linux" is programmed to use a particular area of memory that makes
it crash, then this is a software related issue, isn't it?
Isn't there a log file somewhere that can confirm what the problem is,
whether or not it is hardware related, or at least which package the
crash is related to?
//Robin Oberg
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