USB causes kernel crashes...

[Peter King]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 05:59:02PM -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 

Upgraded to udev 1.71, which seems to run with 2.6.39-r1 with no problems so far.
Since the preceding configurations crashed either on startup or as soon as any USB
device was plugged in, it seems probable that, whatever the bug, it's been cured by
the latest iterations of these pieces of software.

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