RASPBERRY PI PICO cannot find port /dev/ttyACM0

Hello.
Following the standard procedure to connect the pi using button ‘BOOTSEL’ does not able to connect the pi to my laptop.
Thonny give the error message :

Couldn't find the device automatically. 
Check the connection (making sure the device is not in bootloader mode) or choose
"Configure interpreter" in the interpreter menu (bottom-right corner of the window)
to select specific port or another interpreter.

Process ended with exit code None.

journald give :

mars 03 16:47:50 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: usb 1-5: USB disconnect, device number 10
mars 03 16:47:50 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[5602]: 16:47:50.499 [Thread-4 (_listen_stdout)] INFO    thonny.running: Reader got EOF
mars 03 16:47:50 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[5602]: 16:47:50.620 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.shell: BaseShellText._on_backend_terminated
mars 03 16:48:03 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: usb 1-5: new full-speed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
mars 03 16:48:03 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=2e8a, idProduct=0003, bcdDevice= 1.00
mars 03 16:48:03 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
mars 03 16:48:03 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: usb 1-5: Product: RP2 Boot
mars 03 16:48:03 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: usb 1-5: Manufacturer: Raspberry Pi
mars 03 16:48:03 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: usb 1-5: SerialNumber: E0C9125B0D9B
mars 03 16:48:03 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: usb-storage 1-5:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
mars 03 16:48:03 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: scsi host1: usb-storage 1-5:1.0
mars 03 16:48:03 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 mtp-probe[8061]: checking bus 1, device 11: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5"
mars 03 16:48:03 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 mtp-probe[8061]: bus: 1, device: 11 was not an MTP device
mars 03 16:48:04 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 mtp-probe[8103]: checking bus 1, device 11: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5"
mars 03 16:48:04 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 mtp-probe[8103]: bus: 1, device: 11 was not an MTP device
mars 03 16:48:04 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     RPI      RP2              3    PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
mars 03 16:48:04 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
mars 03 16:48:04 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 262144 512-byte logical blocks: (134 MB/128 MiB)
mars 03 16:48:04 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
mars 03 16:48:04 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
mars 03 16:48:04 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
mars 03 16:48:04 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
mars 03 16:48:04 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel:  sdb: sdb1
mars 03 16:48:04 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
mars 03 16:48:05 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 dbus-daemon[1455]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.kded.smart' requested by ':1.47' (uid=1000 pid=3298 comm="/usr/bin/kded5 ") (using servicehelper)
mars 03 16:48:05 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 dbus-daemon[1455]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.kded.smart'
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 systemd[2974]: Started Thonny - Python IDE.
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.088 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: Thonny version: 4.1.7
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.088 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: cwd: /home/user_install
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.088 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: original argv: ['/home/user_install/apps/thonny/bin/python3.10', '-I', '-m', 'thonny']
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.088 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: sys.executable: /home/user_install/apps/thonny/bin/python3.10
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.088 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: sys.argv: ['/home/user_install/apps/thonny/lib/python3.10/site-packages/thonny/__main__.py']
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.089 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: sys.path: ['/home/user_install/apps/thonny/lib/python310.zip', '/home/user_install/apps/thonny/lib/python3.10', '/home/user_install/apps/thonny/lib/python3.10/lib-dynload', '/home/user_install/apps/thonny/lib/python3.10/site-packages']
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.089 [MainThread] INFO    thonny: sys.flags: sys.flags(debug=0, inspect=0, interactive=0, optimize=0, dont_write_bytecode=0, no_user_site=1, no_site=0, ignore_environment=1, verbose=0, bytes_warning=0, quiet=0, hash_randomization=1, isolated=1, dev_mode=False, utf8_mode=0, warn_default_encoding=0, int_max_str_digits=-1)
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.125 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.workbench: Starting Workbench
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.189 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.workbench: Creating runner
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.191 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.workbench: Start loading plugins
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.232 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.workbench: Done loading plugins
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.437 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.workbench: Opening views
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.662 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.plugins.micropython.mp_front: Listing serial ports
mars 03 16:48:12 NEW-INSTALL-JC-15.5 plasmashell[8191]: 16:48:12.776 [MainThread] INFO    thonny.shell: BaseShellText._on_backend_terminated

The only things that works is reinstalling micropython within THONNY.
At the end of the re-installation, the PI pico disconnect, then reset, then /dev/ttyACM0 show up and the PI pico is then accessible.

Any help is welcome.

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