Re: CURRENT r331284: crashing with USB

On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 10:39 -0700, bob prohaska wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 09:49:34PM -0700, bob prohaska wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:07:18PM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > not the ZFS. I can plugin the USB and then unplug it and after
> > > two or
> > > three times doing this, the box goes down.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Does anyone else observe this bug?
> > > 
> > An RPI2 running r331179 didn't crash, but it did complain about
> > setting
> > addresses. The same error crops up from time to time when pl2303
> > serial
> An RPI3 running r331146 reacted more drastically to the insertion of
> a
> USB 3.0 flash drive additional to the one holding /usr and /var; the
> console began to emit a flood of gibberish:
> 
> �`!���Qsb"J� ��B����devices... ��m�o�T����H����������HU�m��**
> First descriptor���Oo]���������sc��y���RRj�1 Storage Device(s) found
>        s�0�H�� *
>                  "�R ���X�t Dev��ֹ.. 1 Ethernet Device(s) found
> Hit any key�}/����/_K�}?���
> 
> which persisted across shutdown -r and momentary power cutoff.
> Removing power 
> for a minute or two seems to have restored normal operation. Note the
> snippets
> of clear text; the serial link isn't the culprit, it's working fine.
> 
> The flash drive had been used as swap on a Raspbian system
> successfully,
> and had a vestigal partitioning scheme from a previous FreeBSD-
> current
> installation. However, it wasn't mounted in any way, just plugged in,
> to
> cause the upset seen above. I wanted to try using the flash drive as
> extra
> swap, per advice given elsewhere. Clearly that isn't going to work.
> 
> Thanks for reading, and any ideas.
> 
> bob prohaska

Those snippets are some of the first things uboot says when it starts.

-- Ian