Bug 101973
Summary: | System hangs when using gnome floppy formmatter gfloppy | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Frank Frankert <frank.frankert> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 9 | CC: | asenjo, dan.horak |
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:41:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Frank Frankert
2003-08-08 14:11:03 UTC
The same happens in my system with kfloppy (kdeutils-3.1-4, KFloppy: 2.0) Besides, this seams to be related with bug 99299 (umounting /dev/fd0 after write hangs the system and reset button is the only way to restart). However I was able to write to floppy and successfully umount it once. Details of my system: Linux version 2.4.20-8 Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz ASUS P4S533-X motherboard AGP 4x GeForce 4 MX/Ti Driver: NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-4363 Even VMWare hangs the whole system when writing to floppy in Windows98 This seems more like a kernel bug. gfloppy shouldn't be able to do that. I have the same problem in RHEL 3.0 with kernel 2.4.21-4.0.2. Another report is described at http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0310.1/1717.html. Problably a bad hardware/BIOS which kernel cannot work-around ;-) This sounds like a "can't fix" but anyway reassigning. Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ |