From gdg at zplane.com  Sat Sep 12 11:53:25 2009
From: gdg at zplane.com (Glenn Golden)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:53:25 -0600
Subject: [Paranoia] cdparanoia 10.2 crashes system during drive detect
In-Reply-To: Message from xiphmont@xiph.org of "Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:07:47 EST."
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Hi Monty,

Any update on this? Anyone else reported anyting like it?

I'm happy to help if I can. Let me know what you'd like me to try.

Thanks,

Glenn


xiphmont at xiph.org writes:
> > I recently attempted to upgrade from cdparanoia 9.8 (which I've been using
> > successfully for years on a variety of systems) to 10.2.  Alas, 10.2 seems
> > to be causing hard, 100% reproducible crashes during drive detection, even
> > running the static binary from the xiph website.
> >
> > I've done my homework on the website (bug reports, "troubleshooting" section,
> > mailing list) and googled of course, but have not seen any mention of this.
> 
> Ah, tripping a bug in the kernel is never fun to debug.  I have a few
> guesses as to what may be going wrong, and the kernel having an
> overinflated idea of what DMA transfer sizes the Thinkpad can handle
> is high on the list.
> 
> I'm going to be doing a sweep of the various bug reports that have
> come in since 10.2 for an upcoming release soon and will have a few
> things for you to try if you're still there and still willing.
> 
> Thanks for the report!  Reports are important!
> 
> Monty