[Tfug] FC4 Locksup or Crashes when inserting a DVD.

[Ashley Pritchard]

It was a kernel bug that was causing the problem I was haveing.
the is a new kernel update to version 1.1398
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Core_4_Update:_kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4

On 7/9/05, Ashley Pritchard <linuxpen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought I had found the problem but in reality I did not find the
> problem. As it turns out more than half of my DVDs crash FC4. There is
> nothing wrong w/the DVDs them selves for they playback just fine in my
> Xbox. Howerver it seems that some DVDs are crashing my FC4 system
> while others seem to play back just fine.
> I have even uninstalled the totem & helix player that come w/FC4 &
> installed the totem-xine & xine which work fine for the DVDs the do
> not crash my system.
> 
> On 7/4/05, Ashley Pritchard <linuxpen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > the drive is is fine. I found the problem. It was the DVD
> > itself...other DVDs work fine. After installing the codecs & Ogle they
> > playback just fine. It is just this one DVD that is locking up the
> > system.
> >
> > On 7/4/05, Matthew Eskes <meskes at azcomputercentral.com> wrote:
> > > Looks like a bad drive or IDE controller. Hope this is just a bad drive and
> > > not the controller.
> > >
> > > Matt
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ashley Pritchard" <linuxpen at gmail.com>
> > > To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 2:43 AM
> > > Subject: [Tfug] FC4 Locksup or Crashes when inserting a DVD.
> > >
> > >
> > > FC4 Locksup or Crashes when inserting a DVD.
> > > In my /var/log I see a reacurring error:
> > > kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekCompleteError}
> > > kernel: hdc: command error: error=0x54 {AbortedCommand LastFailedSens=0x05}
> > > kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > > the system only locksup when inserting a DVD into the DVD drive & then
> > > I have to reboot the system.
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