On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 12:00 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:34 +0100, Robin Oberg wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:21 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > Intermittent failures like that sound more like hardware problems. > > > I > > > seem to recall reading that charging devices like that demands more > > > power than the computer can supply. > > > > > > Oliver Elphick > > > Would that not mean that the same problem exists in other operating > > systems as well? But seeing as it works fine to charge this old > > iPhone 4 > > in Windows, so it does not seem like a hardware malfunction in this > > particular case. > > Not necessarily. It might be that Windows doesn't use a particular area > of memory that Linux does. > > I should go for the other poster's suggestion, of using a powered USB > hub. If the failures cease, it was a hardware problem. > >
Of course, unplugging the device from the USB port stops the crashing, because the crashing starts when the device is plugged in to begin with... If "Linux" is programmed to use a particular area of memory that makes it crash, then this is a software related issue, isn't it? Isn't there a log file somewhere that can confirm what the problem is, whether or not it is hardware related, or at least which package the crash is related to? //Robin Oberg
