I haven't tested newer kernel yet, but already found another interesting thing. When I boot the system and use VLC to play media, no problem occurs. But after using Clementine, QuodLibet, Audacious or Banshee even once, the ugly log is shown regardless of player being used (including VLC).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385165 Title: "Exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen" when playing media Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: OS: Linux Mint 17 XFCE 64-bit Also happens on: Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon 64-bit, Xubuntu 14.04.1 64-bit, Fedora 20.1 64-bit, Xubuntu 14.10 64-bit Repro: Just play some media, e.g. Internet radio using Quodlibet. Results: The following is being printed to kern.log over and over again: kernel: [ 988.235415] ata5: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen kernel: [ 988.235426] ata5: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed kernel: [ 988.235433] ata5: SError: { DevExch } kernel: [ 988.235447] ata5: hard resetting link kernel: [ 988.957529] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) kernel: [ 988.973445] ata5: EH complete kernel: [ 989.066799] ata5: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen kernel: [ 989.066811] ata5: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed kernel: [ 989.066818] ata5: SError: { DevExch } kernel: [ 989.066832] ata5: hard resetting link kernel: [ 991.552650] ata5: COMRESET failed (errno=-32) kernel: [ 991.552665] ata5: reset failed (errno=-32), retrying in 8 secs kernel: [ 999.062192] ata5: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps kernel: [ 999.062206] ata5: hard resetting link kernel: [ 999.978013] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) kernel: [ 999.993952] ata5: EH complete Expected results: No SATA errors happening because of media playback. Frequency: Few times a second. Reproducibility: 100% Additional notes: The problem does not occur neither on Linux Mint 15 64-bit nor on Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1385165/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
