Bug 107326

Summary:	MGE UPS Protection center prevents kernel from booting when usb cable is pluged
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pierre AUSSAGUEL <pierre_aussaguel>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Kernel config file Screenshot

Description Pierre AUSSAGUEL 2005-09-26 14:10:43 UTC

When the USB (Merlin Gerin Protection center 500 USB) cable is plugged in my
computer, the kernel will hang early in the boot process.
When the cable is removed, the computer boot normaly.
If the cable is pluged during the boot process (after kernel initialisation)
there is no problem
The UPS and UPS connection with nut works well in normal operation

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Power on computer, USB cable plugged
2. Chose the kernel (2.6.12-r10) in LILO


Actual Results:  
Computer in frozen, need to reboot.

Expected Results:  
Normal boot process

Motherboard : MSI K7N420 Pro (nforce1 Chipset)

athlon ~ # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/
ftp://130.59.10.34/mirror/gentoo/
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/
ftp://194.117.143.69/mirrors/gentoo http://194.117.143.71"
LANG="fr_FR@euro"
LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt
cups curl divx4linux dvd eds emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd
gdbm gif gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib ipv6
java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg nas
ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png pps
python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk
tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts trutype type1-fonts usb vorbis
win32codecs wmf xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_fr userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

Comment 1 Pierre AUSSAGUEL 2005-09-26 14:12:31 UTC

Created attachment 69290 [details]
Kernel config file

I will take a picture of the screen next time I reboot my computer and post it

Comment 2 Pierre AUSSAGUEL 2005-09-27 04:58:55 UTC

Created attachment 69334 [details]
Screenshot

Note that this screenshot is from a 2.6.12-r9 kernel since I use gensplash for
2.6.12-r10 and I dont see any error message (but the comuter is still frozen)

Comment 3 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-29 01:47:46 UTC

Is this reproducable in newer kernels (2.6.13, or even better,
vanilla-sources-2.6.14_rc2)?

Comment 4 Pierre AUSSAGUEL 2005-09-29 05:00:55 UTC

I will give a try to vanilla-sources-2.6.14_rc2 (I will download tonight cause I
have a slow rtc connection)

Comment 5 Pierre AUSSAGUEL 2005-10-02 10:39:52 UTC

It works with 2.6.14-rc2

(But I dont want to use neither vanilla sources ou unstable kernel)

Comment 6 Pierre AUSSAGUEL 2005-10-11 14:22:05 UTC

Dont work with gentoo-sources 2.6.13-r3

Comment 7 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-29 06:50:20 UTC

gentoo-sources-2.6.14 is now in portage