On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:10:50PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On 14/02/2008, Christian Otto Stelter <cosinus at unit42.de> wrote: > > Frantisek Dufka wrote: > > > See http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2940 for details ... > > [ 11.960937] attempt to access beyond end of device > > [ 11.960937] mmcblk1: rw=0, want=4013848, limit=3932160 > > [ 11.960937] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk1p1, logical block 501728 ... > > I started looking for this a few months ago after I had a problem > mounting the partition via my USB cable. On multiple USB hosts I saw > similar whining in syslog, but the complaints were the same across > systems that mounted it successfully and those that didn't. > > I *think* the errors were prompted by this: > > I'd just deleted the AV media that comes bundled on the device via the > USB connection, and noticed that a "df" gave me the same output as > before deleting the media. How did you deleted the files? If you used some sort of a GUI tool to do that, it could be they've only been moved into the recycle bin and won't actually free any space until you empty it. (On the other hand, mentioning df leads me to think you used something more unix-like.) > I then tried disconnecting the USB cable > and reconnecting it: That's a *bad* idea, unless you unmounted the filesystem first. > that's when I saw these sort of errors on the > host. It was only at this point that I started looking at the > tablet's dmesg output: it's possible it was complaining in this > fashion /before/ I removed the media (but I don't think it was). > > I wonder if the bundled media files are originally placed in some > special part of the internal card that's thought of as immutable by > some code, but not all? </wild_ass_guess> Marius Gedminas -- ... there is always a well-known solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "Prejudices" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20080214/11506782/attachment-0001.pgp
