I did file a bug, A flash drive is very common and this type of problem needs attention.

What is interesting is that flashdrives of 4 gigs or less do not generate the conditions to cause the Panic Attack.

I also updated the bug. Perhaps something similar will occur with F16, unless fixed.



> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Leslie S Satenstein
> <lsatenstein@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> > Excuse the provocative subject line.
> >
> > With Fedora 15, I start file browser from my list of of favorites. I use
> > the browser to view the partitons on my computer, and one of the entries is
> > my flash-drive in the USB port.
> > I clicked on the Icon for the drive, saw that the contents were not what I
> > needed, closed the window, and clicked on the option to eject the
> > flash-drive.  Wham, system halt, screen says panic, and the keyboard lights
> > 1 and 3  are blinking in my face.  The keyboard is not responsive and
> > neither is the system. It takes a hard reset to reboot.
> >
> > I was able to do this action consistently.  There was no problem with
> > Fedora 14, and there was no problem using the other file browser.  Beware
> > Nautilus 3.0,.2 and using it's menu item to eject a flash-drive.
> >
>
> 1) Wrong list
> 2) Sounds like a kernel oops
> 3) File a bug

Don't bother. There's a bunch of similar bugs already, it's almost certainly
a dupe.  I think the plan is going to be to push a .38 reverting a change
to the scsi code that highlights these problems (thus papering over the actual bug)
and then getting a .39 pushed out asap.

    Dave