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[Marc Chamberlin]

On 7/15/2010 11:17 AM, John Drescher wrote:

Thanks Gert for your thoughts! No, once the drive changed states to being
read-only, after running my wine apps, the only recourse I have to getting
it going again is to reboot. I cannot dismount the drive as Linux continues
to believe some process is using it, even though I have killed all the
PortableApps processes and stopped the wine server itself. It is interesting
to note that whenever I get into trouble with using the Passport drive,
even the Linux system itself cannot dismount the drive during its shutdown
process. Which is really surprising since dismounting all drives is one of
the last things that happens, after all other system and user processes have
been terminated!

Look at your dmesg output. To me this sounds like a HW failure or a kernel bug.\

John

Hmmm kernel possibly, hardware doubtful - I do not have any troubles
like this when using the Passport under Windoz... This problem occurred
on several different Linux systems all running the same version of
openSuse 11.2.. I don't want to get heavily involved in trying to run
tests however, got too many other projects in the fire, so I don't want
to reinstall Wine rc7 again.. Just want to report I had an issue and am
willing to submit a bug report..

One way I can sometimes recreate the dismount problem, is to
"accidentally" disconnect the USB drive while it is mounted. Linux can
get confused about it when I then reconnect the drive, but not always,
sometimes Linux does recover gracefully by killing off any apps that
were using the drive at the time of the disconnect. Sometimes however,
Linux fails to recover and then the drive becomes unable to be
dismounted. (this scenario happens once in awhile to me, easy to pull
the USB chord out of the USB socket, but it was NOT a factor when I
tried to use wine rc7 and got the previously mentioned failures) But I
am not sure that this particular issue is of interest to the wine
developers...

Marc..

[dimesio]

Thanks Gert for your thoughts! No, once the drive changed states to being
read-only, after running my wine apps, the only recourse I have to getting
it going again is to reboot. I cannot dismount the drive as Linux continues
to believe some process is using it, even though I have killed all the
PortableApps processes and stopped the wine server itself. It is interesting
to note that whenever I get into trouble with using the Passport drive,
 even the Linux system itself cannot dismount the drive during its shutdown
process. Which is really surprising since dismounting all drives is one of
the last things that happens, after all other system and user processes have
been terminated!

Look at your dmesg output. To me this sounds like a HW failure or a kernel bug.\

Yes, this goes way beyond anything Wine can do. As Gert said, a change to Wine may have triggered a bug somewhere else.

[cledesol]

cledesol <[email protected]> wrote:

My need about Wine and USB is for a GPS update software (Navigon Fresh).
They do not plan to port it to Linux.
The software run with Wine but cannot acces to the GPS connected to an USB port.

Folks have been able to connect Garmin GPS devices to Linux and they appear as a removable storage device. Have you examined your system to see if a new device appears when the GPS device is plugged in?

James McKenzie

Yes James, when I connect my GPS to an USB port I can see it and navigate thru its files hierarchy.
But the GPS is always not seen by the application "Navigon Fresh" running with Wine

[Gert van den Berg]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 20:10, Marc Chamberlin <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks Gert for your thoughts! No, once the drive changed states to being
read-only, after running my wine apps, the only recourse I have to getting
it going again is to reboot. I cannot dismount the drive as Linux continues
to believe some process is using it, even though I have killed all the
PortableApps processes and stopped the wine server itself. It is interesting

losf should show you what else might be using it... (possibly some
indexing crap...)

umount -l almost always gets the job done... (umount -f might work as well...)

You can try getting it read-write again by doing a "mount -O remount,rw"...

Gert

[Martin Gregorie]

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 13:57 -0500, cledesol wrote:

Yes James, when I connect my GPS to an USB port I can see it and
navigate thru its files hierarchy.
But the GPS is always not seen by the application "Navigon Fresh"
running with Wine

A lot of these devices seem to treat the USB connection as some sort of
serial device. I have a Binatone B.350 which uses a USB serial port
(ttyUSB0) and I'm aware that some also provide a mass storage interface,
but mine doesn't. As these things run Windows Mobile, I'd assumed that
the serial connection is used for a HotSync session and consequently am
rather mystified about why they'd need to expose their storage as a
flash drive.

Martin