From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010816 Description of problem: I tried to mount a /dev/sda1 (digital camera USB), and the process stop in state D, after that i can't mount or unmount a thing and no one can kill them, even in reboot i have to do a power reset. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add aline in fstab to mount like "/dev/sda1 /mnt/Fuji vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto,umask=0,users 0 0" 2. Then try to mount /mnt/Fuji 3. note: Fuji is a USB digital camera. It works sometimes. Actual Results: The /bin/mount process is freeze and no one can kill it, even by a kill -9 or killall. After that i can't mount or unmount anything. A restar must be by power reset. It stop in "stopping automount" Expected Results: Mounted the digital camera. Additional info: I have a Athlon, 1Ghz, 256Mram, one IDE disc, a DVD ROM, kernel 2.4.2. I'm affraid to lose information, doing the power reset.
It would appear that the kernel system call is hanging.
USb storage has had a major rework since 2.4.2. Multiple hang bugs have been fixed.