On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:21:19AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 16 January 2010 19:45:14 Rob Owens wrote: > > I need help diagnosing a problem. I have a Lenny system that sometimes > > reboots when I insert a USB key. It happens with multiple USB keys, but > > I can't figure out the pattern as to when it reboots and when it > > doesn't. > > While my current system does not have this problem, my older system would > occasionally reboot when something was plugged in. > > It's probably a problem with the port(s). When something is plugged in, it > starts supplying USB power, this causes a voltage drop, some capacitor > empties > and the system shuts down. It's like an (extremely) localized brownout. > > Still, the symptoms you describe could be caused by virtually anything in the > chain from device to kernel. Since you can't seem to isolate it to a certain > device, I would suggest that the next troubleshooting steps would be to try > to > isolated it to a port or kernel. > > So, you might try to get the symptoms to show on Debian/kFreeBSD and make > sure > you can get the symptoms to show on every port.
Thanks for the insight. The machine in question is at a customer's site, so I'll have him try different ports for now. Hopefully I can avoid taking a trip to his site... -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
