From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 13:13:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3DBA37B4C5 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:13:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from m1009-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com ([62.252.11.241]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001111211327.ZBIM277.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@m1009-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com>; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:13:27 +0000 Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:16:36 +0000 (GMT) From: George Reid X-Sender: geeorgy@sobek.nevernet.net To: Greg Lehey Cc: George Reid , Joshua Delong Thomas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mounting a music cd (by accident) and then an automatic reboot In-Reply-To: <20001111113650.N1686@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I'm looking into this at the moment. Attempting to mount an audio CD > > causes a kernel panic; this is why your system automatically reboots. > > On a more general note, if your system panics, this is a bug. There > are ways to find out what happened; refer to the online handbook, > which tells you what to do. I have submitted a PR for this and a potential fix (kern/22664). In hindsight, it would probably be useful to add a "force mount" option to mount to override CDs written with incorrect medium types. G --- "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message