Re: [arch-general] Kernel Panic on x64 when writting to 1TB External USB disk

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Victor Silva's message of 2011-02-22 14:52:34 +0100:
 Hi folks i'm not 100% sure I'm posting on the right list so if im wrong
 please disregard and direct me to the appropriate list. :)
 Well I'm having a problem with USB devices causing kernel panic.
 I got an external 1 TB USB hard disk in NTFS format. When I tried to save
 some files (downloads from deluge) on it I get a kernel panic. Which
 files/logs can I provide to help you? The system simply hangs and all
 keyboard leads start to blink.  I'm using Linux  2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT
 Fri Feb 18 18:32:16 CET 2011 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
 5600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux. It is the default arch linux kernel. If I
 write a small file and move to the folder things seem to be okay. Any ideas?
 
 Thanks for the great distro folks hope you can help me on this one.

Hi,
I don't know the answer but I too have problems recently (weeks?
months?). I have two HDs connected via a USB hub which I only power up
and connect when I need them. One of those is also NTFS formatted. I'm
also on x86_64. Sometimes when I connect or power on those drives I get
a kernel oops, the first ones I had in a long time.

I did somehow suspect usb drivers but it might also be ntfs-3g. However,
if it works, it works. I copied a couple of GB around yesterday without
issues, once I managed to power up, connect and had the drive show up
without kernel panic.

Sadly I have no idea how to track the error down. I would like try to
re-format the disk but I need to get another one first.

Re: [arch-general] Kernel Panic on x64 when writting to 1TB External USB disk

[Karol Babioch]

Hi,

as the kernels officially provided by Arch are (completely) Vanilla
kernels it it almost certain that problems of this kind are problems of
the kernel itself.

Therefore it seems to make more sense to report these issues upstream.
The people there have more experience how to track down such problems,
but I think it starts always with looking at the messages ;). What does
dmesg and/or /var/log/messages.log say?

Best regards,
Karol Babioch



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Re: [arch-general] Kernel Panic on x64 when writting to 1TB External USB disk

[Richard Schütz]

I assume that both of you use X and as a consequence don't see the 
kernel panic output. Try to trigger the error with copying some files to 
the disk from e.g. tty1. Then useful debug information should be visible 
there.


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Regards,
Richard Schütz