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| Thread ID: 54872 | 2005-02-24 08:13:00 | Mandrakelinux 10.1 USB problems | bismon (7425) | Press F1 |
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| 327888 | 2005-03-10 08:22:00 | Tried booting from the old kernel (2.6.3-7mdk) which was slow and painful. Still got the USB problem but I didn´t have it when I was running 10.0. dmesg shows that the external hard drive is picked up but when I try to access it I get FAT: File system panic (dev sda1) fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i-pos0) File system has been set to read only FAT: File system panic (dev sda1) fat_get_cluster:invalid cluster chain (i-pos0) repeating the last 2 lines Cannot print out the whole dmesg screen because most things are locked up. System monitor shows the CPU red-lining at 100% as soon as USB is plugged in and stays red-lined even when unplugged. Is this a kernel problem if booting from the old kernel does not help? You might have opened the door but is it the right door? Give me some thoughts please Bismon |
bismon (7425) | ||
| 327889 | 2005-03-10 10:22:00 | Im still inclined to think it is. That and you may have corrupted the partition (Doubt it, but possible). Tried booting a LiveCD recently? Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 327890 | 2005-03-10 11:16:00 | OK . . . . . . but why does booting from the old kernel not bring salvation? LiveCD? I tried the Ubuntu one the other week and it seemed to boot up ok . Didn´t spend a lot of time on it though . Tried Knoppix 3 . 7 as well but could only get that to boot up from failsafe option . So what does the LiveCD acid test establish? I´ll update the kernel in the weekend and see if that makes a difference . I take it I can either do an urpmi update from a terminal or use the rpm install? Any preference? What is on the DO NOT DO or you are in big trouble list for kernel updates? Cheers Bismon |
bismon (7425) | ||
| 327891 | 2005-03-10 12:29:00 | If it works in Ubuntu, then we can determine its your current distro settings, which would bring us back to the kernel again. Heres two URLs, the first is the info on the latest kernel, the second is the rpm you should try installing! rpm.pbone.net ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/main/kernel-2.6.11.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 327892 | 2005-03-14 08:55:00 | Ended up with more kernels than the Tuktuktukastan Revolutionary Army but didn´t solve the problem. Came across a posting on LinuxQuestions. Seems it relates to a KDE problem and one of the upgrades fixes it. Which one? Who knows? But 40MB of downloads later and the locking up was solved. Even got my USB Zip drive to work. Problem saving to external HD still exists though. I can save to the Zip but I still get the same Filesystem panic and invalid cluster chain error with in dmesg when I try to save to external HD KDE error is ¨Could not make folder mnt/removable/new¨ Anyone got any ideas? Bismon |
bismon (7425) | ||
| 327893 | 2005-03-14 10:48:00 | Try: cat /proc/partitions This will let you know the partition sizes, from which you can figure out which device to replace /dev/sda1 with mkdir /mnt/external mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/external -o umask=000 Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 327894 | 2005-03-25 12:36:00 | Ended up connecting external hardrive to someone´s XP box and running Disc Cleanup. Can only assume it fixed some system file error as everything is working fine now. Cheers. |
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