Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

["Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 12/31/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>      some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 (stable version). Since
> then i've experienced complete freezes of the machine (nothing
> responds, even external ping on the network) when USB devices are
> mounted. In case nothing is connected to the USB drive the machine can
> stay online without *any* freeze.
> The only thing i've done is to create local udev rules to facilitate
> the mounting of these devices: this is an example of its structure. As
> you know as of udev-089 some keyword has changed (as SYSFS--> ATTRS).
> Before this upgrade everything was working correctly.

All udev does is create device nodes...it cannot effect the operation
of the device or cause the system to hang.

I suspect a hardware problem appeared at the same time as your update.
 What if you unplug the device while the system is hung?  Does it
clear up?  Have you tried other USB disks?  How about other USB
devices, like printers or scanners?

-Richard
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