Worrying message " ata4: EH pending after 5 tries, giving up" from dmesg
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux |
Fix Released
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Medium
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Andy Whitcroft | ||
Intrepid |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Andy Whitcroft |
Bug Description
In 64bit intrepid I find the following messages repeatedly appearing in the kernel ring buffer "ata4: EH pending after 5 tries, giving up" and "ata4: EH complete". The "ata4: EH pending after 5 tries, giving up" message seems to appear during periods of hard disk activity
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
LsUsb:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2501USB Wireless Adapter
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Package: linux-image-
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: linux
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SRU Justification
Justification: warning messages may flood the syslog following a suspend
Impact: warnings flood the syslog in response to disk activity
Fix Description: ensure the driver ports are thawed following suspend
Risks: this is a driver specific change
TEST CASE: see bug
Related branches
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importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
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status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
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status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
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status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in linux: | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in linux: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in linux: | |
assignee: | nobody → apw |
Changed in linux: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in linux: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
assignee: | nobody → apw |
Changed in linux: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: hw-specific |
Changed in linux: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
I notice that I do not get these messages when using linux 2.6.27-2-generic.