On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:37:11 +0100 Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What on earth is /dev/uba? [...] It's a block device driver for USB storage which I wrote recently. Arjan enabled it in Rawhide, obviously to get reports such as yours. >[...] > Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 2 > end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 6 > Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 3 > end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 48 > etc. etc. For some reason hald sometimes loses its mind when it sees ub. I have no idea what is happening. I run FC2 with updates, everything seems operating normally when I debug ub. I did not see us shipping device nodes for ub, so if hald manages to open ub, it must be creating device nodes on the fly, by reading /proc/devices or /proc/partitions. Userland is some crazy stuff these days... -- Pete
