[Karmic] USB Card Reader Malfunction - clutter in DMESG

[Dennis Heinson]

After boot, I get a LOT of these. I.e. they keep coming. It's due to the USB Card Reader I'm using.

[dmesg]
[17507.445380] sd 4:0:0:3: [sde] Unit Not Ready
[17507.445386] sd 4:0:0:3: [sde] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[17507.445395] sd 4:0:0:3: [sde] Add. Sense: Logical unit not supported
[17507.459745] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unit Not Ready
[17507.459750] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[17507.459758] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Logical unit not supported
...

[lsusb]
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0db0:4011 Micro Star International Medion Flash XL V2.0 Card Reader

Please advise me on what additional info might be necessary.
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: dennis 1666 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfea38000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC888'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,18491e01,00100001'
   Controls : 32
   Simple ctrls : 19
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Frequency: Once a day.
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=UUID=458f6b56-5149-45bb-a96a-aa5335229039 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Regression: No
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.33
Reproducible: No
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
Tags: lucid kconfig needs-upstream-testing
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers
dmi.bios.date: 12/10/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P1.80
dmi.board.name: ConRoe1333-D667
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.80:bd12/10/2007:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvn:rnConRoe1333-D667:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

[infoteksec (peter-white99)]

I have identical problems with exactly the same hardware on 9.10 fresh install

I have just rebooted my computer from Ubuntu 9.04 and verified it did not exhibit the same problems.

The problem is not new - see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463271

[infoteksec (peter-white99)]

BTW: This problem is serious for me as /var/log is increasing in size at about 1.5 to 2 Mb per hour.

[Bitbit (temporary)]

Same problem here!
#lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0db0:4011 Micro Star International Medion Flash XL V2.0 Card Reader
...and lots of messages in errorlog too.

Btw, I have trouble with addon-storage on HAL too, generating a lot of messages in /var/log/messages:
# ps afx |grep hal
 2584 ? Ss 0:01 /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes
 2593 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-runner
 2817 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event7 /dev/input/event6 /dev/input/event5
 2926 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdc (every 2 sec)
 2944 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdd (every 2 sec)
 2948 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdf (every 2 sec)
 2952 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sde (every 2 sec)
 2965 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
 2994 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)
 4473 ? S 0:01 \_ kdeinit4: kwrite [kdeinit] /home/jan/.kde4/Autostart/halrepair
 4755 pts/1 S+ 0:00 \_ grep hal

These message occur even when addon-storage is nog connected. My workaround here:
# sudo killall hald-addon-storage

But this is not a workaround for this new problem, which occurs after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 from 9.04.
Hope problem(s) can be solved.
Some output:
 lshal |grep Card
  info.product = 'Medion Flash XL V2.0 Card Reader' (string)
  usb_device.product = 'Medion Flash XL V2.0 Card Reader' (string)
  scsi.model = 'SM/XD Card SM' (string)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Generic_SM_XD_Card_SM_AAAA12345678_0_3'
  block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Generic_SM_XD_Card_SM_AAAA12345678_0_3' (string)
  info.product = 'SM/XD Card SM' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Generic_SM_XD_Card_SM_AAAA12345678_0_3' (string)
  storage.model = 'SM/XD Card SM' (string)
  storage.serial = 'Generic_SM_XD_Card_SM_AAAA12345678-0:3' (string)
  scsi.model = 'SD Card MMC/SD' (string)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Generic_SD_Card_MMC_SD_AAAA12345678_0_2'
  block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Generic_SD_Card_MMC_SD_AAAA12345678_0_2' (string)
  info.product = 'SD Card MMC/SD' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Generic_SD_Card_MMC_SD_AAAA12345678_0_2' (string)
  storage.mo...

[roemer2201 (roemer2201)]

Well i got the same problems, but different hardware:
####################################################
# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0d8c:0006 C-Media Electronics, Inc. Storm HP-USB500 5.1 Headset
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1241:1503 Belkin Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c01d Logitech, Inc. MX510 Optical Mouse
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0dda:2001 Integrated Circuit Solution, Inc. Multi-Card Reader
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
####################################################
# ps afx |grep hal
 1401 ? Ss 0:00 hald --daemon=yes
 1482 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-runner
 1689 ? D 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdc (every 2 sec)
 1690 ? R 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdd (every 2 sec)
 1691 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sde (every 2 sec)
 1692 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdf (every 2 sec)
 1712 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event0
 1716 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)
 1717 ? R 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr1 (every 2 sec)
 1718 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/fd0 because it is explicitly disabled
 1719 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-cpufreq
 1745 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
 4602 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ grep hal
####################################################
# lshal |grep Card
  info.product = 'HDA NVidia Sound Card' (string)
  info.product = 'Multi-Card Reader' (string)
  usb_device.product = 'Multi-Card Reader' (string)
  scsi.model = 'Combo Card SM' (string)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_ICSI_Combo_Card_SM_00000000001_0_3'
  block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_ICSI_Combo_Card_SM_00000000001_0_3' (string)
  info.product = 'Combo Card SM' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_ICSI_Combo_Card_SM_00000000001_0_3' (string)
  storage.model = 'Combo Card SM' (string)
  storage.serial = 'ICSI_Combo_Card_SM_00000000001-0:3' (string)
  scsi.model = 'SD Card MMC/SD' (string)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_ICSI_SD_Card_MMC_SD_00000000001_0_2'
  block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_ICSI_SD_Card_MMC_SD_00000000001_0_2' (string)
  info.product = 'SD Card MMC/SD' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_ICSI_SD_Card_MMC_SD_00000000001_0_2' (string)
  storage.model = 'SD Card MMC/SD' (string)
  storage.serial = 'ICSI_SD_Card_MMC_SD_00000000001-0:2' (string)
  scsi.model = 'MS Card MS' (string)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_ICSI_MS_Card_MS_00000000001_0_1'
  block.stora...

[William Grant (wgrant)]

I also find that this causes excessive CPU usage from mountall and various other DeviceKit-disks-using daemons.

[chrysoberyl (lnxme1)]

I get sensibly the same problem as described by OP.

dmseg
[31913.693584] sd 2:0:0:3: [sde] Add. Sense: Logical unit not supported
[31913.698198] sd 2:0:0:3: [sde] Unit Not Ready
[31913.698203] sd 2:0:0:3: [sde] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[31913.698209] sd 2:0:0:3: [sde] Add. Sense: Logical unit not supported
[31913.701699] sd 2:0:0:3: [sde] Unit Not Ready
[31913.701703] sd 2:0:0:3: [sde] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[31913.701709] sd 2:0:0:3: [sde] Add. Sense: Logical unit not supported

are filling up my logs in /var/log at a quick pace

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0db0:4011 Micro Star International Medion Flash XL V2.0 Card Reader

Same hardware.

I am willing to help, please advice on what info I can provide to help fix this.

Ubuntu 9.04 was working fine.

[Carsten Stein (jmcc-stein)]

Having the same problem withan 9.10 fresh inst
lsusb
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 0bf8:1011 Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1307:0330 Transcend Information, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0db0:4011 Micro Star International Medion Flash XL V2.0 Card Reader
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c0b:b159 Dura Micro, Inc. (Acomdata)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

lshal |grep Card
  info.product = 'ATI IXP rev 0 with CMI9780 Sound Card' (string)
  info.product = 'Medion Flash XL V2.0 Card Reader' (string)
  usb_device.product = 'Medion Flash XL V2.0 Card Reader' (string)

If I can be of some help with further information, please let me know.

Carsten

[Jos Kaats (jkaats)]

/var/log/kern.log and /var/log/messages flood with:

Feb 18 21:50:06 AldiBak kernel: [35152.422853] sd 2:0:0:2: [sde] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
Feb 18 21:50:06 AldiBak kernel: [35152.422858] sd 2:0:0:2: [sde] Add. Sense: Logical unit not supported
Feb 18 21:50:06 AldiBak kernel: [35152.423717] sd 2:0:0:3: [sdf] Unit Not Ready

On lsusb i get for device 2:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0db0:4011 Micro Star International Medion Flash XL V2.0 Card Reader

Will this be fixed? I'm more then willing to follow up ion trace instruction in order to provide debugging info.

[Dennis Heinson (dheinson)]

This is most likely a kernel bug and would need to be filed in the kernel bug tracker (the Linux one...). For that, we would have to try a really really new kernel first to make sure the bug still exists. I did that at some point to 2.6.32, the bug was still there, but didn't get around to filing it as a kernel bug.

[jhermann (juergen-hermann)]

You can disable polling (which is better and more permanent than the "killall hald-addon-storage"), for example like this for any device with "Generic Flash HS" in its UDI:

lshal | grep '^udi.*Generic_Flash_HS' | cut -f3 -d" " | xargs -i+ hal-disable-polling --udi +

In my case, it was a card reader in the monitor that I don't use anyway.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Dennis,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 452519

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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One more addition: I tried 2.6.33 from the Mainline Kernel PPA. It still has the same problem. 2.6.34-RC1 kernel panics at boot, so I couldn't test that.

[gmck (gmck)]

I am seeing the same problem on Lucid Beta 2 (and daily updates as of 20-Apr).

In my case, this issue appears to be the cause of a significant boot delay. The boot delay shows up in two phases: a 60 second delay between power on and login prompt (kdm) and a second delay of about 30 seconds between login and kde being available. Neither of these problems were present in 9.04 - they were only seen after upgrading.

The discussion at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hdparm/+bug/515023 seems to be relevant to this bug. The solution recommended there (https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/548513/comments/20) eliminated the first boot delay, but it did not eliminate the log messages.

example log messages:
[17507.445380] sd 4:0:0:3: [sde] Unit Not Ready
[17507.445386] sd 4:0:0:3: [sde] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
[17507.445395] sd 4:0:0:3: [sde] Add. Sense: Logical unit not supported

Following a recommendation in the forums, I added "nohdparm" to the grub kernel line at boot time. This eliminated both of the boot delays and the log messages. However, I don't know what side effects "nohdparm" may have on the system.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Dennis Heinson, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Karmic reached EOL on April 30, 2011.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We were wondering if this is still an issue on a supported release? If so, can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command in a supported release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

Closing this bug with Won't fix as this kernel / release is no longer supported.
Please feel free to open a new bug report if you're still experiencing this on a newer release (Bionic 18.04.3 / Disco 19.04)
Thanks!