USB causes kernel crashes...

[Peter King]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:12:04PM -0400, Peter King wrote:

> Pretty sure it's a kernel issue. It does *not* happen with 2.6.37-r4, where
> I can plug and unplug devices willy-nilly. Plus, there are others who report
> the same problem with the 2.6.38/9 kernels. No doubt it does interact with my
> hardware -- I don't have the problem on my other computers -- but then again,
> it's my hardware that I'm stuck with, and it would be good to make it work.

Threads from Arch, Slackware, Debian, Ububtu. It seems to be a kernel/udev problem, 
but nobody knows quite what or how to fix it. Count yourself lucky if it doesn't 
affect you.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=939433
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=940952
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119140
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.slackware/browse_thread/1161ce84623b4133
http://osdir.com/ml/debian-kernel/2011-04/msg00261.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1707388

Lots of other reports (Fedora etc.):

http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/27/94
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1146635
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/cbcc401baa71c716
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130662291207794&w=4

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