Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1382 mails)

[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:05:20 on Monday Monday 01 June 2009, "Carlos E. R." 
<robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday, 2009-06-01 at 00:01 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > Ok, then try to umount, then mount - manually.
> >
> > stan@poblano:~> umount /media/floppy
> > stan@poblano:~> ls /media/floppy
> > stan@poblano:~> mount /media/floppy
> > mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> > stan@poblano:~> mount /media/floppy
> >
> > Above, is the umount, which was effective, since ls returned nothing.
> > It is unexpected (at least to me) that the mount command then gets
> > the error message.
>
> And that's the real error: your system thinks it does not have a
> floppy.
>
> You could look at the end of the /var/log/messages file right after the
> mount command, to see if the kernel says anything. Also, eject and put
> the floppy and look up the log again. Another place is to look in
> /var/log/boot.msg anything relative to the floppy.

The file /var/log/boot.msg has nothing related to the floppy; the file's 
date stamp is older than yesterday's experiments with the drive.

On the other hand, /var/log/messages contains great tracts resembling the 
following:

*****
May 31 23:50:42 poblano kernel: [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown 
parameter 5
May 31 23:51:03 poblano kernel: floppy0: disk absent or changed during 
operation
May 31 23:51:03 poblano kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 
724
May 31 23:51:03 poblano kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical 
block 724
                .
                .
                .
May 31 23:51:03 poblano kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 34
May 31 23:51:03 poblano kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical 
block 34
May 31 23:52:07 poblano kernel: floppy0: disk absent or changed during 
operation
May 31 23:52:07 poblano kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 19
May 31 23:52:07 poblano kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical 
block 19
May 31 23:52:07 poblano kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on fd0
May 31 23:56:15 poblano kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
May 31 23:56:15 poblano kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
*****

Sector/logical blocks are always one of the following: 724, 33, 34, 19.

After browsing that file, I did some mount -- umount manipulation of the 
drive (using the same diskette as yesterday), and again inspected to 
<messages> file. There was nothing there like the above, related to these 
actions. 

Then I tried clicking on the <floppy drive> icon in the Konqueror drives 
list, with the drive mounted. To my surprise, the resulting window now 
shows the files that I know to be present on the diskette. If I have done 
anything to bring this about, I don't know what it is.

Returning to the <messages> file, I find the following error messages, 
which are very different from the messages of yesterday, but they do not 
enlighten me.

*****
Jun  1 19:52:35 poblano su: (to root) stan on /dev/pts/3
Jun  1 20:01:03 poblano kernel: [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown 
parameter 5
Jun  1 20:08:42 poblano kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media or 
resized disk fd0
Jun  1 20:10:11 poblano kernel: [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown 
parameter 5
Jun  1 20:13:06 poblano kernel: [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown 
parameter 5
Jun  1 20:13:40 poblano kernel: [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown 
parameter 5
Jun  1 20:19:34 poblano su: (to root) stan on /dev/pts/2
*****

I would appreciate any help in understanding what was wrong yesterday, and 
also what appears still to be wrong today.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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