Created attachment 377647 [details] Fedora 12 Gphoto2 kernel Oops dmesg Output Description of problem: Remote capture with gphoto2 fails with Kernel Oops and freezes the machine. I installed kernel-debug to try and zero in on the problem. For some weird reason while the fault is always reproducible in the "regular" Kernel the issue doesn't manifest itself at all when running the Debug Kernel. Attached are: 1. dmesg output (fc12_kernel_oops_dmesg_output) 2. /var/log/messages output (fc12_kernel_oops_var_log_messages) 3. gphoto2 debug log (fc12_kernel_oops_gphoto2_debug_output.tar.bz2). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686.PAE gphoto2 2.4.7 libgphoto2 2.4.7 libgphoto2_port 0.8.0 How reproducible: always. The issue may occur anywhere from after 5 remote captures attempts up to 60 remote captures attempt but always "guaranteed" to fail within this range. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC12 and update the system to make sure it is up to date. 2. Install gphoto2 (if it is not already installed) 4. Set some parameters on the camera to make sure we can talk to it ok: gphoto2 --set-config capture=on --set-config capturetarget=0 --set-config iso=0 --set-config ownername=mymiamiview.com --set-config zoom=60 5. Capture an image and download it: gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download --force-overwrite --filename=image.jpg 6. Repeat (anywhere from 5 to 60 times) until the Kernel Oops is observed Actual results: Kernel Oops and the machine freezes. Expected results: successful remote capture and image download time after time Additional info: Various excerpts from the logs: Dec 10 11:31:31 localhost kernel: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1069 Dec 10 11:31:31 localhost kernel: Pid: 2767, comm: gphoto2 Tainted: P W 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686.PAE #1 Dec 10 11:31:31 localhost kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000f7 Dec 10 11:31:31 localhost kernel: Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
Created attachment 377649 [details] Fedora 12 Gphoto2 kernel Oops /var/log/messages Output
Created attachment 377650 [details] Fedora 12 kernel Oops gphoto2 debug output
I'm seeing exactly the same problem. However, the problem seems to only occur on one of my F12 machines. I'll try to come up with some more info later.
This looks like it might have something to do with our problem: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14564
For anyone still affected by this issue, or any Googlers' stumbling on this, I have found a workaround just in case it helps. This device supports USB 2.0 (Canon PowerShot S2 IS). However, there seems to be an issue with the way ehci is interacting with the device which then causes the crash. Since now USB modules are compiled into the Kernel, I didn't find an easy way to disable ehci (without going through the hassle of compiling a Kernel from scratch) or an easy way (which works) to force only this particular USB device to use uhci (USB 1.0). Instead, I simply plugged the device to a USB 1.0 HUB (i.e. an older hub which doesn't support usb 2.0) and that did the trick. The Camera snapped 1,000,000 images since then without the issue manifesting itself. Crude workaround (i know) but one which seems to work nonetheless. If you try this out, make sure to check your system log. You should see the camera is connecting through uhci_hcd as oppose to ehci_hcd.
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