From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Description of problem: Note: I'm not sure this is a kernel problem. Inserting and removing a USB Flash disk (Cruzer Mini 128MB from SanDisk) caused the keyboard and network to become (largely) nonresponsive. The magic keys (brightness up/down, mac_hid mouse alternatives) worked, but keyboard input did not; the mouse was responsive, as were X11 applications. Note that mounting the devices was NOT necessary, merely inserting and removing it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.541 How reproducible: Didn't try (I plan to, but recovering took some time due to disk badness/fsck, so tonight is out.) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert Cruzer Mini 2. Wait for /var/log/messages to settle 3. Remove Cruzer Mini 4. Fly into a rage when things break
Created attachment 103818 [details] /var/log/messages output for this event
Interestingly, I've experienced the same problem with a different usb device, a usbvision driver compatible usb video adapter. It isn't very reproduceable, though. I've only had it happen once or twice.
I got my hands on one of these items today, plugged it in, and gnome-volume-manager mounted it for me. Unmounted just fine as well. No apparent problems on my iBook (and I'm running an old-ish rawhide tree) http://fedoraproject.org/fedorappc/ is where the fc3test2 tree is from (well, pre-test2, before the dev removal mess). So please check to see if this is resolved
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