Description of problem: System dies, when user try unmount floppy. Floppy (FAT) mounts OK. Then we reads data from floppy - OK too. Write something to floppy - OK, but when "umount /mnt/floppy" after writing - system down. No erros, no warnings, mouse point disappears, keyboard off, system hangs off. Using mmount a:, mcopy, - identical results. mcopy faults after writing. cp may fault after autofsd try umount(?) floppy. KDE - when user umount floppy by menu. This bug appears after installing video drivers for nVidia GForce4MX (drivers by NVidia "nvidia", not RH9 common video drivers "nv"). Some manipulations with /etc/fstab got us strange results: sometime (in very few cases) this bug do not appears, but why, it's undefined, because after rebooting error appears again. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install nVidia drivers: #sh NVIDIA-.x.something.x.y.z..; I have got drivers from official page of nVidia. 2.Try: $mount -t vfat /mnt/floppy /dev/fd0 $cp /etc/fstab /mnt/floppy $umount /mnt/floppy ....System crash. or try $mcopy /etc/fstab a: ....System crash. My videocard: GForce4MX400.
Some news about 99299: At nVidia forum I found one topic about lockups of nVidia driver under XFree86. It's recommended to update XF86 to version 4.3.0.1. At XF86 site I have read info about this last patch and found some aviable causes of failure. Do I need update XFree? But one important thing : I have see this problem WITHOUT XF, at run-level 3, too. And how X-server depends of file system?
The nVidia drivers are unsupported for a reason.