Package: dosfstools
Version: 2.11-2.1
Severity: grave
Trying to creata file system to a USB key, Kingston 512M
DataTraveller, causes complete system to hang and all memory is
exhausted. Kill -9 takes 15 minutes to stop the mkfs.vfat process.
The USB stick was wiped and partitioned (512M, Primary) with
cfdisk(1).
Command used to format it:
mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda1
dmesg reports:
SCSI device sda: 974848 512-byte hdwsectors (499 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
Using plain udev; "hotplug" package is not installed.
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[System details]
DELL Inspiron 5000e, laptop, USB 1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname -a
Linux cajon 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:52:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Processor: Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory: 256M
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.9rc2 emulation code)
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[USB key info]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 499 MB, 499122176 bytes
16 heads, 60 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 960 * 512 = 491520 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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[top(1) listing during hang up; barely produced]
top - 21:03:07 up 17 days, 43 min, 8 users, load average: 11.48, 9.82, 7.04
Tasks: 92 total, 1 running, 91 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 4.6% us, 2.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 92.7% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.3% si
Mem: 256588k total, 253208k used, 3380k free, 32444k buffers
Swap: 529160k total, 482928k used, 46232k free, 10184k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
681 root 18 0 486m 148m 296 D 0.7 59.2 0:10.97 mkfs.vfat
6350 root 5 -10 58480 17m 1556 S 0.7 6.8 826:35.19 Xorg
27028 mervi 15 0 126m 15m 3400 S 0.0 6.3 5:34.27 opera
826 mervi 15 0 4012 2348 1316 S 0.0 0.9 0:00.10 bash
825 mervi 16 0 3380 1752 1300 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.11 rxvt
6480 mervi 15 0 13060 1176 968 S 4.6 0.5 1156:07 bubblefishymon
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# lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
bridge (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP
bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 128
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: f4000000-f40fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f8000000-fbffffff
0000:00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00cc
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
0000:00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00cc
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
0000:00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
(prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at 1080 [size=16]
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
(prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 1060 [size=32]
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev
10)
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00cc
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3
AGP 2x (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00cc
Flags: bus master, stepping, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium devsel,
latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_US)
Versions of packages dosfstools depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
dosfstools recommends no packages.
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