USB problem after recent update

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Hello everyone.
I’ve got some trouble with one of my machines, updated something about a week ago and the HD led started flashing a lot showing unusual activity.
I checked the log and found this http://i36.tinypic.com/9usu53.png
Tried to plug in a USB stick into each slot, all of them worked, can’t find where the problem is so I’m asking you for some info.
Using an nForce4 SLI (Albatron K8SLI) motherboard and I’ve disabled the USB in BIOS until I find a way to resolve this issue.

Regards

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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:26:03 GMT
finders <finders@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> Hello everyone.
> I’ve got some trouble with one of my machines, updated something about
> a week ago and the HD led started flashing a lot showing unusual
> activity.
> I checked the log and found this http://i36.tinypic.com/9usu53.png
> Tried to plug in a USB stick into each slot, all of them worked, can’t
> find where the problem is so I’m asking you for some info.
> Using an nForce4 SLI (Albatron K8SLI) motherboard and I’ve disabled the
> USB in BIOS until I find a way to resolve this issue.
>
> Regards
>
>

Hmmm, looks like two devices, or two ports actually are having issues. Please
can you scroll up (earlier) in the file to see where these messages begin?
What happens just before they start spewing log messages.

Also, can you tell us what you updated?

Have you updated since? Rebooted?

Is (was) there anything else plugged into your USB ports?

“Plugged USB stick into each slot, all worked”… worked as in, properly
worked, device detected, contents shown in window, worked?

How many ports do you have available? total?

{Smile} Soooo many questions!

Loni

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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

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This is the start of todays log, just before it started to spam.

Updated KDE 3.5.9 packages and removed gnome, xfce and KDE 4.1, not sure it has something to do with the error.

There was nothing plugged in at boot time. Once the system started I plugged in the stick in all 4 USB slots, it opened the content every time as usual. This machine also has a separate win XP drive, device manager didn’t show any errors.

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No, I doubt the software you updated/removed had any effect.

Please can you post the output of:

sudo lsusb
sudo lsusb -v

Yes, same command twice, second with ‘-v’ for verbose output. The short
output information is included in the verbose, but it’s more difficult to
find and grok.

Thank you.

Loni

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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

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sudo: lsusb: command not found
Looks like I’m missing something here “find / -name lsusb” didn’t return anything.

edit : installed the missing package

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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:46:03 GMT
finders <finders@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

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> sudo: lsusb: command not found
> Looks like I’m missing something here “find / -name lsusb” didn’t
> return anything.
>
>

Whoops!

Install ‘usbutils’ package.

Sorry 'bout that.

Loni

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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

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I’m no expert, but it looks like hardware trouble to me, might be something wrong with motherboard since it’s only one port.
Is there any way to disable Port 6 or make the log skip that one?
Flash Pen is working, I’d just like to keep the system log working like it used to, without abusing my HD with all that.

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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:46:02 GMT
finders <finders@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> I’m no expert, but it looks like hardware trouble to me, might be
> something wrong with motherboard since it’s only one port.
> Is there any way to disable Port 6 or make the log skip that one?
> Flash Pen is working, I’d just like to keep the system log working like
> it used to, without abusing my HD with all that.
>
>

Definitely a possibility… that’s where the lsusb/lsusb -v outputs would
help, as we could determine where port 6 was in the system, and what the
system ‘thinks’ is there.

A true hardware condition should (based on my knowledge of usb host hardware)
involve more than one device, since there are usually multiple usb ports
handled by a single chip. Not ruling stuff out though, as I’ve certainly
seen weirder things happen.

(read about “More Magic” (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html)
sometime)

Rather strange that this occurred after an update though, which tends to make
be lean towards a software / configuration issue. (again, though…
anything is possible…)

Loni

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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

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Had some free time today, tested the machine.
Turns out MB is fine, opensuse 10.3 install didn’t show any USB related errors. Both openSUSE-11.0-GNOME-LiveCD-i386 and openSUSE-11.0-DVD-x86_64 reported the same issue.
Then I turned off USB in BIOS, re-installed the x86_64, updated everything and turned it back on. After that log stopped spamming.

Tried lsusb -v again and it looks normal

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On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:36:03 GMT
finders <finders@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> Had some free time today, tested the machine.
> Turns out MB is fine, opensuse 10.3 install didn’t show any USB related
> errors. Both openSUSE-11.0-GNOME-LiveCD-i386 and
> openSUSE-11.0-DVD-x86_64 reported the same issue.
> Then I turned off USB in BIOS, re-installed the x86_64, updated
> everything and turned it back on. After that log stopped spamming.

Well, I suppose that’s good news. So did you end up with 10.3 or 11.0?

Loni

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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

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11.0 gnome on this one, 10.3 KDE on another one. Thinking about upgrading both 10.3 and windows machines to 11.0 it’s a very nice release.
Thank you for support, hopefully, this issue is solved for good.
Regards
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