Re: [njbfs-devel] Problems here

[Danish Q. <dx...@nj...>]

> > > Daniel Demus reported:
> > > >I was uploading files the Nomad to my harddisk. The
> > > >Nomad was on batteries, so it shut down after a time.
> > > >This caused my computer to spontaneously reboot.
> > >
> > > If I understand correctly he is still transferring files with njbfs, when the
> > > NJB powers off suddenly. Uhhhhh. Weird. I never tried that. Anybody?
> >
> > I'm going to try to duplicate it with my setup. My thinking is that if I
> > remove the batteries, leave it on AC power and then yank the code I should
> > be able to replicate what happens on a power down. Although I think the
> > NJB sends a few signals up the pipe right before it powers down? This is
> > going to be hard to trace though.
> >
> >
>
> I don't think yanking the cable will have the same effect, as, as you
> point out, the njb sends something down the line when it shuts down. It
> could have been automount and usbmgr having a merry time.
>
> To give some extra info:
> My machine: Dell Latitude CPt, RH 7.2, kernel 2.4.7-10, fresh usbmgr.
>
> This particular incident happened while it was in the docked, so it
> could be some peculiar combination of dodgy docking station, crummy
> laptop and agressive messages from the njb.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Spontaneous rebooting however is not a
good thing. Did you have anything in the logs at all? It may help to
enable a syslog class for *.debug messages (/etc/syslog.conf), since the
NJB spits out some of those too.

- Danish