Just curious...

PattiMichelle · #1 (**permalink**) 03-Jul-2009, 21:45

Had a bit of a worry today - I installed and configured an HP USB inkjet printer (7260) and then was fooling around with a game, when the system hung. On reboot, it would mount all partitions, then stop at:

Setting up loopback interface lo
lo IPaddress: 127.0.0.1/8
IPaddress: 127.0.0.2/8
Done.

...and just sit there. I tried failsafe mode but got the same results. After fretting for a while, and on a whim, I unplugged the USB cable to the printer and the system booted normally. I had a HP 7450 USB printer that just died and never had this problem. I guess openSuSE is getting confused about what's on the other end of the USB interface?

Confuseling · #2 (**permalink**) 04-Jul-2009, 04:19

Sometimes your BIOS will have options about how to deal with USB. Might well not help altering them, but I'd be surprised if it did any harm...

caf4926 · #3 (**permalink**) 04-Jul-2009, 04:24

Additionally. I have seen USB hubs throw a booting system in to weired and wonderful behavior.

PattiMichelle · #4 (**permalink**) 04-Jul-2009, 12:51

Thanks - no hubs here... and the other printer caused no such problems - maybe it was some sort of transient state caused by the combination of a new printer and a game crash...
FWIW: 11.0 x86_64 dual Athalon, Asus M2A-VM mobo 3GB, XFX video, SATA drives

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