USB camera won't mount

[Net Llama!]

On 03/03/03 20:02, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I have rebooted twice (It takes a while on my ext2 system, since when

why??  At the least, convert to ext3, and save your data.

> things freeze up the reboot takes 90 minutes.) Yes, my entire system

and you time.  90 minutes to reboot?  how big are your filesystems that 
it takes 90 minutes to do a fsck?

> hung during a transfer up of a photo. This has happened before several
> times last month. Now, I can't get the dang thing to work at all. I am
> suspecting a hardware problem in the camera.
> 
> On my last attempt the camera was recognized with cdrecord -scanbus but
> the driver couldn't initialize the camera anyway.
> 
> cdrecord -scanbus is also hanging, suggesting there is some hardware
> problem. Who knows? Maybe a loose connection.

Have you checked messages for errors unrelated to the event?


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