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| Thread ID: 55285 | 2005-03-07 06:43:00 | Fedora Core 3 crashing with USB disk | saikou (7056) | Press F1 |
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| 331493 | 2005-03-07 06:43:00 | Hello, New thread as this is a seperate issue. Xfce will mount the USB disk (clip drive, maybe called flash drive too..?) but anytime I try to read it FC3 hangs. When running Gnome it could read about 50% of the time without hanging. I have rw rights on the disk. Another question, when it hangs, is there something like Windows Task Manager to kill the app? It's tiresome turning the power off and booting again. (As expected, the Net isn't as packed with info on Linux as it is for Windows, hence my asking here) |
saikou (7056) | ||
| 331494 | 2005-03-07 07:22:00 | Try applications->system tools->system monitor to kill a process. | johnd (85) | ||
| 331495 | 2005-03-07 07:22:00 | Hello, New thread as this is a seperate issue. Xfce will mount the USB disk (clip drive, maybe called flash drive too..?) but anytime I try to read it FC3 hangs. When running Gnome it could read about 50% of the time without hanging. I have rw rights on the disk. Another question, when it hangs, is there something like Windows Task Manager to kill the app? It's tiresome turning the power off and booting again. (As expected, the Net isn't as packed with info on Linux as it is for Windows, hence my asking here) How are you mounting the disk? What files are on the disk? I usually mount it as a msdos file system for the first partition on the usb disk if I am looking at jpegs. I then view it using Firefox or Gimp. As for killing the process, try Alt-F2 to get another "console". Open a terminal emulator (eterm, xterm etc), run "top" as root and kill the offender. You could also kill X by Cntrl-Alt-Backspace and run top as root. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 331496 | 2005-03-07 07:30:00 | It would seem that not all USB pen drives are created equal. I have a 256M Lexar that mounts in FC3 100% reliably. From personal experience though, I know there are other drives that this is not so for! It also seems that you may have a different experience with the same pen drive on different distributions. Not sure why?? The above pen drive takes literally 5 minutes to mount with SuSE 9.1. | johnd (85) | ||
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