From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: After a while communicating using ttyUSB0 the whole USB system freezes: The connected USB mouse does not react anymore and inserting USB memory sticks does not trigger an event. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.10-1.760 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a program which communicate over the ttyUSB0 device. 2. Let it run for sometime. 3. Actual Results: The whole USB bus freezes; no communication anymore, USB mouse frozen. Expected Results: Continuous serial communication. Additional info: The program I use polls the device if something is there to read. ioctl( o->sh, FIONREAD, &nbytes );
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.