[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2011-02-03 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: linux Importance: Unknown => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 Title: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty -- u

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2010-04-27 Thread kamahat
Same probleme and I had to wait a long time to find a solution : flashing the firmware of my latop cdrom. I've got an ACER Aspire 9410, the cdrom is a TSSTCorp TS-L632D And acer only deliver 1 firmware : AC01 As stated on the other post, crossing flashing is okay, I've flashed witch :" SC04 - Or

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2009-06-09 Thread Bryan Wu
As sideshowmel reported, this bug is invalidate at all. So close it to invalid. -Bryan ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2009-03-24 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: linux Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-b

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2009-01-07 Thread sideshowmel
So it would appear that this is, in fact a hardware issue (at least in my case). Like I said, my mem, mobo, proc, and HDD's all were good. The one thing I never considered: power supply. It would appear that one of my drives was consistently receiving too little power. It just occured to me out

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2009-01-05 Thread sideshowmel
I've read through this and countless other posts about this issue (which I am also experiencing). It truly does render the computer useless. The only big thing that jumps out at me in this thread is that everyone is mentioning problems with their CD/DVD drives, and upgrading firmware, etc. So...

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-12-01 Thread raccoonone
I just started experiencing this bug after I upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid. Let me know if there is any information I can provide. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-09-19 Thread Adam
I am unable to contribute any further to this bug, as I am no longer using the hardware in question. I will be unsubscribing. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are

Re: [Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-08-29 Thread Kevin P
I no longer have this problem after replacing the SATA data cable with a better quality latch cable. Recently I rebuilt the computer with the problem and used a cheap cable again, how quickly you forget - the problem recurred. The computer is now running OK with a set of good quality cables. Th

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-08-28 Thread Leann Ogasawara
The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test: 1) If you are comfortable

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-05-24 Thread kiev1
This kernel bug this problem already whole year for me she showed up one time in the floor of hour, however as a result of this problem I lost a mysql database - mysql innodb not start - "Accertion error" - did not help even "innodb_force_recovery = 4", backup was an a week remoteness - the works

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-05-23 Thread Leann Ogasawara
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-05-21 Thread weks
i also have this problem with my asus notebook with ata hdd...pc locks up randomly and here is system log...is there any fix for this? ** Attachment added: "screenshotvarlogmessageyx3.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14643250/screenshotvarlogmessageyx3.png -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-05-12 Thread Jochen Garcke
I also had problems like this on my nc6220 laptop starting with gutsy, often when moving the laptop the system hang for a bit and activity in the (empty) cd drive could be heard. Since upgrading to Hardy this seems to be over, only very short breaks if at all when moving the laptop to access the c

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin P
The problem is solved on my machine - I replaced the SATA cabling with better quality Akasa latch cables instead of the cheap cables that come with the motherboards. So far I have installed and run Ubuntu/Hardy and installed Gentoo (on another partition) and compiled X/Gnome with no problems. The m

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-04-24 Thread Melekai
as of today im experiencing similar issues. im really unsure if this is the right place. but basically when i have a SATA drive plugged in the system wont boot. previously with just one SATA and main disk as a IDE, i would boot but get random 10-30 seconds freezes in the system. when the sata

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-04-20 Thread Brian Murray
I'm unassigning this bug as bugs should only be assigned when someone is working on a fix for the bug and this doesn't seem to be the case. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: richard philippe (rifi58) => (unassigned) -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical dr

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-03-25 Thread richard philippe
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => richard philippe (rifi58) -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-03-12 Thread Gareth Fitzworthington
Can anybody still experiencing this problem test the following possible solution? http://linux-ata.org/faq.html#combined The slow down as a result of the PATA/SATA combination may be causing at least some of the above mentioned problems. This will probably only affect those with Intel chipsets.

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-03-12 Thread Luka Renko
** Attachment added: "dmesg.log from 2.6.24-12 kernel" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12618514/dmesg.txt -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-03-12 Thread Luka Renko
I have noticed that during this hick-ups, "htop" shows at least one (in most cases both) fully loaded (100%), even though that the top process on the list occupies cca 10%. htop also presents that CPU load as red, so I suspect this is CPU time used in kernel. I suspect kernel is spinning on somethi

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-03-09 Thread Kevin P
I agree this bug seems to be serious - it renders your computer useless. A 30s delay in hard drive access is pretty useless in my books. Also the CD in a CD-Drive trick doesn't seem to work for me. The bug seems to be present for both Maxtor and Samsung hard drives I have tried. I have a small netw

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-03-08 Thread richard philippe
Ubuntu run normaly only when a cd/dvd is inside... Why the hell isn't this one year old bug marked as critical ?!? -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-03-06 Thread Leann Ogasawara
Luka, Care to quickly verify the issue exists against 2.6.24-11 and reattach your dmesg as well as lspci -vvnn output? Thanks. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-02-28 Thread Brian Murray
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: linux-source-2.6.24 => linux -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-02-28 Thread Luka Renko
Maybe we should implement hal-info quirk that would disable polling on such HW, as it was done for Dell laptops - see bug 48499 -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-02-20 Thread Luka Renko
This is also reproducible with latest Hardy version on HP nw8440 with Seagate disk ST980825AS ** Also affects: linux-source-2.6.24 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Attachment added: "dmesg.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12125515/dmesg.log -- Hard disk I/O randomly

Re: [Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-01-15 Thread Green_Star
I have same problem with my SATA, it works good in windows. I have another question. If disk fails in the middle of copying then, I had to reboot to set it back online. Is there any way to re-attach this disk without rebooting? Arjanhs wrote: > I'm having the same problem after updating the Gu

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2008-01-14 Thread Arjanhs
I'm having the same problem after updating the Gutsy kernel to 2.6.22-14, after a reboot i got the following errors: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata3.00: cmd c8/00:20:88:d3:d7/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 16384 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-12-19 Thread Phillip Lougher
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (BOSS) Assignee: (unassigned) => Phillip Lougher (phillip-lougher) Status: New => Invalid -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification becau

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-12-19 Thread Phillip Lougher
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received thi

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-12-16 Thread Kevin P
A few more notes from testing. A lot of people talking about CD-ROM drives. I have two optical drives, one Samsung and one NEC. I disconnected the Samsung drive - same problem. Connect both optical drives plus Samsung SATA harddrive - problem Connect both optical drives plus Maxtor SATA harddriv

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-12-13 Thread mezhaka
I confirm that the problem has gone after updating the firmware of the cd drive. it is an asus laptop (6000 series) with the afore mentioned TSST drive. I used the blah-blahSC04 version of firmware. sfdndos utility mentioned above. tried to make a bootable usb, but could not boot using it, so i bur

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-26 Thread Igor Lautar
Typo in my previous comment: "After upgrade, I went and installed feisty" I've actually installed gutsy. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-26 Thread Igor Lautar
I confirm this bug on HP nc8430 with upgraded drive. Summary: I just upgraded existing drive (Fujitsu MHV2100BH) to Seagate 7200.2 (ST9200420ASG). Previous drive worked fine with edgy and feisty (did not tried it with gutsy). After upgrade, I went and installed feisty. The same lockups (as descr

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-20 Thread Laurent
I'm still using the ide_cd module (sata_nv is disabled on Gutsy) and also have the problem so disabling ata-piix or sata modules won't have any effect. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug not

Re: [Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-20 Thread Green_Star
Does it help me by disconnecting my DVD drive from mother board? I use DVD drive very very rare. On Nov 20, 2007 8:41 AM, pdm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > this solution is for people who have TSS corp DVD driver. I have a > Matshita one. > > wolfram Arnold wrote that piix module is not in

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-20 Thread pdm
Hi, this solution is for people who have TSS corp DVD driver. I have a Matshita one. wolfram Arnold wrote that piix module is not in Gutsy : what do you mean : can't we add piix in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules ? What can we do to make Gutsy possible to (simply) use ? -- Hard disk I/O randomly

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-17 Thread suoko
THE SOLUTION IS HERE! https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/75295/comments/97 thanks all -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-17 Thread suoko
Problem is still there. As I posted here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=598580, feisty kernel under gutsy + blacklisting some modules is a way to solve this problem, although this causes problems with usb devices (i.e. I can't mount camera anymore although feisty could do it with no pr

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-17 Thread Db0
I can confirm I have something quite similar. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3784478 I am going to try playing with the cables a bit and see if I can disaple that piix. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-16 Thread Wolfram Arnold
etrustco: "I truly hope there's less people affected by these libata issues than it seems, or 7.10 will be a fiasco :-( ... It is also unfortunate that Ubuntu removed (most of?) the old IDE modules/drivers, thus impeding the option to simply blacklist the (corresponding) libata driver.." I can

Re: [Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-16 Thread Green_Star
It is really pain for me, I have two disks, first one is ATA , 10GB, loaded with OS, running fine. Second one is SATA, 500GB, this is for all my files, media etc. This disk keep freezing and it is really annoying when I try to download some file from internet or my mythtv automatic recording, wat

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-13 Thread Papamatti
I've solved the bug for me, one of the sata cables was bad - i've changed all cables to original asus cables (wich delivered with my ASUS-Board) Didn't believe that a cable can cause so much trouble...now it works for about two weeks 24 hours a day without an error. -- Hard disk I/O randomly fr

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-11-12 Thread Green_Star
I do have this problem with my new SATA disk. OS is running on ATA disk, so ubuntu runs fine but my mythtv and all other media writes into my SATA and it is keep freezing. My mother board and hard drive as follows GIGABYTE GA-K8N Pro-SLI 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard with 1394b Weste

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-10-26 Thread Papamatti
I have the same bug like described in the bugdesciption on a nVidia 590 based mainboard (ASUS M2N32 WS Professional). There are two SATA Samsung 250GB harddisks connected and one Samsung SH-182M dvd-writer at the IDE-port of the board. With this issue i cannont create a working software raid. Can

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-10-18 Thread nicosiaf77
I can confirm that the SC04 firmware from Samsung fixed this issue for my TSST TS-L632D. My Acer 9424 go to 100% of Performance and nothing freeze of system. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-10-18 Thread etrusco
I truly hope there's less people affected by these libata issues than it seems, or 7.10 will be a fiasco :-( I'm "kind of lucky" that I only started to have problems in 2.6.22, in Feisty devel, and problem is not exactly this, but a probably less annoying one (that I can't find anymore on launch

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-10-10 Thread ori
I can confirm that the SC04 firmware from Samsung fixed this issue for my TSST TS-L632D. I used Hiren's Boot CD to boot into DOS with USB support and launched the firmware upgrade from a USB jumpdrive. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-09-08 Thread Gareth Fitzworthington
Readers of this bug commentary should also examine the following related bugs: Bug #75295 Bug #117441 These show the problems that the TSSTcorpCD/DVD TS-L632D optical drive has been causing for both Linux & MSWindows users. They also show that the solution requires a firmware upgrade. -- Hard d

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-08-31 Thread nicosiaf77
** Also affects: linux-source-2.6.20 (BOSS) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-08-30 Thread nicosiaf77
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn kernel 2.6.20-16-generic I have an Acer Aspire 9424WSMi with a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632D Aug 31 02:28:37 gabema kernel: [ 1094.812000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Aug 31 02:28:37 gabema kernel: [ 1094.812000] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-08-17 Thread gomek
Kubuntu Feisty Fawn kernel 2.6.20-16-generic I believe the problem is occuring with my SATA hard drive, which is a Samsung SP0812C. It stops responding quite often. It seems that most people that are having this problem are fixing it with 'piix', but I have a VIA chipset rather than an Intel one

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-08-17 Thread gomek
** Attachment added: "lsmod" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8880204/lsmod.log -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug con

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-08-17 Thread gomek
** Attachment added: "lshal" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8880195/lshal.log -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug con

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-08-17 Thread gomek
** Attachment added: "lspci -vvnn" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8880187/lspci.log -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the b

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-08-17 Thread gomek
** Attachment added: "syslog" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8880173/syslog -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug conta

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-08-17 Thread gomek
** Attachment added: "dmesg" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8880161/dmesg -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-07-27 Thread Roberto Pinho
I've also had the problem, but seems to be working now with this Kernel : 2.6.20-16-386 ( linux-image-2.6.20-16-386 ) -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-07-26 Thread Brian Murray
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Kernel Team Status: New => Triaged -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-07-24 Thread Travis Reitter
To confirm what Scott Henson said, I've noticed the lockups in 2.6.22-8 (only kernel I see in my Gutsy Tribe 3 menu.lst). This is also on a Gazelle laptop from System 76. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You re

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-07-24 Thread Scott Henson
So, I have a stupid question. Why in the world is hal polling a cdrom anyway? Can't it just listen for open/close events and check the drive then? Is the problem that nothing generates these type of events? I know people seem to have settled on this being a kernel bug, but could we perhaps conv

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-07-02 Thread Scott Henson
An interesting bit of information is that under kernel 2.6.22-6-generic the situation seemed to have fixed itself. I was getting the errors to the log, but I was not noticing the lockups. Now, with kernel 2.6.22-7 the lockups are becoming very noticable. Looking through the changelog I see noth

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-07-02 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: linux (upstream) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for U

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-27 Thread Brian Murray
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug cont

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-27 Thread chantra
FYI: the upstream bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8316 is pretty active. A debugging patch is available: see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8316#c73 Would be great if some people could spare some time patching their kernel and sending the output there. Looks like thi

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-24 Thread Matthias
Here's a performance measurement of my hard drive. I don't know if the values are normal as I don't have anything to compare it to: /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 1670 MB in 2.00 seconds = 835.11 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 114 MB in 3.00 seconds = 37.96 MB/sec -- Hard disk I/O ra

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-24 Thread Matthias
I am experiencing the same issue on a Samsung R55 Notebook. Plus, I noticed a major slowdown in Hard Drive I/O. It's ~4 times slower now than with Edgy. This is a critical issue for us, as we need to perform time consuming operations on a database. Can you please flag this bug as major or critical

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-22 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: linux (upstream) Status: In Progress => Incomplete -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-20 Thread Laurent
Same bug as #75295 -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lis

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-20 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: linux (upstream) Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-19 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: linux (upstream) Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubun

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-18 Thread chantra
th bug number is to be upstream bug number: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8316 -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-18 Thread chantra
changed to bug number 8316 upstream as per Tejun Heo comment ** Changed in: linux (upstream) Bugwatch: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #8044 => Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #8316 Status: Rejected => Unknown -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty http

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-18 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: linux (upstream) Status: Unknown => Rejected -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubunt

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-17 Thread Tritonio
I has a similar problem. This is what I find in the system log. Jun 17 22:25:50 Tritonio kernel: [22870.792000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Jun 17 22:25:50 Tritonio kernel: [22870.792000] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x1e data 0

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-13 Thread chantra
There is a bug upstream, I have just added the link to launchpad http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8044 maybe a bit of activity should be shown upstream. This bug affects every single linux distros -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https:

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-13 Thread chantra
** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #8044 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8044 ** Also affects: linux (upstream) via http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8044 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-13 Thread dafrabbit
Regardless of whether or not it voids your warranty, the fact still stands that crossflashing is risky and certainly not a solution for the majority of Ubuntu's targeted base. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 Y

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-13 Thread chantra
I guess crossflashing is not an issue regarding to warranty as long as you can flash back to the original state (or to a supported one). -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification becau

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-13 Thread wolfmanjm
Not only that, but in many cases cross flashing is not an option, as it happens with different models of cdrom drives, and sometimes even in the absence of a cdrom entirely. So good question, will this be fixed any time soon? -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical driv

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-13 Thread dafrabbit
Has there been any more word from developers in regards to when/if this issue will be resolved WITHOUT the need to crossflash? As stated above, this does appear to be an issue with the linux kernel, hald, etc. And in particular, this issue does not appear in MS Windows. Crossflashing is not only an

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-13 Thread Joey Stanford
I was able to successfully cross-flash my System76 Darter Ultra (and thereby void the warranty no doubt) using Jason Vitosky's instructions above. So far this appears to have resolved my cdrom based problems. -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-13 Thread Jason Vitosky
Ehh...nevermind, I found the answer above in Keenan's directions above (HINT: I forgot the -n switch): "1. Create a primary FAT partition and filesystem on my hard disk (or usb drive) 2. Get the firmware file from http://www.toshibaer.com/firmware/download.php?TS-L632D/TS-L632D_SC03.zip (unzip

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-13 Thread Jason Vitosky
Guys, I too have an ASUS Z35f with TS-L632D drive. But when I try using the TS-L632D_SC03.bin firmware, it keeps saying that my TS-L632D_AS05 drive is incompatible!!! What should I do? Should I use the TS-L632D_AS99.bin firmware instead? I don't see how that could help since AS05 and AS99 have t

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-06-03 Thread wolfmanjm
I tried some new things to further the resolution on this BUG. I disconnected the DVD drive, and it did not fix the problem. I disabled smartmond (which was monitoring my two HDs and worked fine in edgy) and the problem went away. I no longer got sdb freezing and going away when I booted. So in

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-30 Thread okahei
Linux alfawave 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Wed May 23 01:46:23 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-30 Thread okahei
Same for me on Ata disk [ 4946.80] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [ 4946.80] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:dc:e0:03/00:00:00:00:00/ea tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in [ 4946.80] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [ 4953.804000] at

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-30 Thread povvy
For live_linux_source: in my case dma is turned on after appling the trick... so strange... -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84603 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-29 Thread jasampler
Hi, I have the same problem reported at the end of https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/5537 Apart of reinstalling Ubuntu 7.04, I also installed Debian to see if the problem could be solved that way and the computer does the same. Searching here about this I found a lot of similar bugs

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-27 Thread live_linux_secure
If i do this trick my hard drive is also recognised as the old fashioned "/dev/hdaX" but DMA is off and it is impossible to turn it on! I would like to have the denomination /dev/hdaX because when the system recognise my disk as a SATA it make a weird noise when it turn off! That's why i would l

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-26 Thread povvy
I've solved the problem editing /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, and adding this lines: piix ide_generic ide_cd ide_disk # blacklist bad driver blacklist ata_piix # prevent unnecessary modules from being loaded (you don't need to do this) blacklist ata_generic blacklist libata blacklist scsi_mod

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-20 Thread Lukáš Zapletal
Same on my machine with LG drive. But my drive has no firmware update and my computer gets rebooted when the error occurs (usually when it finishing with DVD-R writing). https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/115647 -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empt

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-16 Thread wolfmanjm
Another point is if this were not a kernel bug, then how come everything works fine when I boot into kernel 2.6.17-11-generic? The only difference being the kernel. (I am currently running feisty with kernel 2.6.17-11-generic so I can work!) would imply that HAL and the cd drive are not to blame.

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-15 Thread dafrabbit
I concur with wolfmanjm, whether or not crossflashing works is beside the point, there is a real bug somewhere in the driver, and that's what should be fixed. Any developers have any ideas? Do we need to collect more information? -- Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-15 Thread wolfmanjm
Thius is all well and good however I have a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S183L and it has the latest firmware, so I can;t upgrade. I think the point is being missed here that a bug in the driver is causing this problem, and flashing the cdrom drive to stop a hard disk from freezing up is a workaround whate

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-14 Thread Keenan Pepper
Okay, here's the procedure I'm about to attempt. Please tell me if there's anything wrong with it. 1. Create a primary FAT partition and filesystem on my hard disk. 2. Get the firmware file from http://www.toshibaer.com/firmware/download.php?TS-L632D/TS-L632D_SC03.zip (unzip it, of course) and t

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-14 Thread Tomas Siaulys
Well, I think windows has some workaround or something or uses different drive access method. That firmware obviously fixes the problem, and it doesn't affect windows at all - the drive is functioning properly, including burning and reading CDs/DVDs. Well, it's your choice after all. I chose to upg

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-14 Thread dafrabbit
I've been following this bug, and I've had the same kinds of errors as well. In addition, it seems as if having a disk in the CD drive prevents the system from freezingmy question would be however, why does Windows not have this behavior? I'm hesitant to flash my drive if it's a problem specifi

[Bug 84603] Re: Hard disk I/O randomly freezes when hald is running and optical drive is empty

2007-05-14 Thread chantra
it seems to me that the last firmware applied to my cd drive solved the issue. wolfmanjm: >>Although it is odd that if I boot in single user mode, the drive does not >>give these errors, so it could be something in hald or another daemon (maybe >>smartd?) is interacting? yes, I believe hal is i

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