Recent USB problems
 

Hi there,

I have been using my USB without any trouble for a good while now. Most commonly to mount my iPod and PSP. Recently however I used deporphan (in Ubuntu) to find some orphaned packages and then removed them (I'm not sure this is the cause of my problems but it is the only thing I can think of). Now I cannot mount either of my usb devices (although my usb mouse still works fine).

I have been playing around a bit and found that /dev/sda no longer exists. I have also discovered that running "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" hangs (I cannot CTRL-C, it just sits and does nothing, I have to close the terminal to get rid of it and even then it is still listed under ps).

I have usb-storage module loaded and ohci and ehci.


Any ideas???


Cheers,

Jon

[Ubuntu Breazy Badger, 2.6.12-9]

Do you know which packages you removed? That'd probably help a whole lot, check the man page to see if deporphan logs stuff somewhere. Plug in your iPod and then post the output of 'dmesg'. Does 'lsusb' show anything? What does 'lspci' say?

Hi, dpkg has logs in /var/log, the packages I removed were:

libpq3
libflac6
libcairo1
libexif10
libaspell15c2
libwxgtk2.6-0
python-gnupginterface
libdns16
libecal1.2-2
liboil0.2
libtunepimp2c2
gstreamer0.8-hermes
libdmx1
gstreamer0.8-jpeg
libdps1
gstreamer0.8-audiofile
libncurses4
libmotif3
libedataserverui1.2-4
libegroupwise1.2-5
libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
gstreamer0.8-dv
libiw27
libxaw8
libmysqlclient10
gstreamer0.8-speex
gstreamer0.8-theora
libopenexr2c2
libxft1
libtag1c2
libpcre3
libreiserfs0.3-0
kdelibs-data
libdb4.2++
libwvstreams3-base
libc6-i686
libxkbui1
xlibs-data
libwnck16
gstreamer0.8-gsm
libdevmapper1.00
aalib1
libavc1394-0
libpixman1
libebook1.2-3
hermes1
libsoup2.2-7
libglitz1
libisc7

lsusb hangs, just as if I had tried to cat /proc/bus/usb/devices.

This is the output of dmesg upon plugging in my iPod:

[4388428.698000] usb 3-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[4388428.760000] usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[4388428.923000] usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[4388429.086000] usb 3-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[4388429.148000] usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[4388429.311000] usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[4388429.474000] usb 3-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[4388429.876000] usb 3-2: device not accepting address 5, error -71
[4388429.938000] usb 3-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[4388430.340000] usb 3-2: device not accepting address 6, error -71

lspci:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016
0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)


Thanks for the reply!

Cheers,

Jon

Oh groovy. I'm getting an incredibly similar error with a USB hub I just bought. Very pissed off. Can't help you yet but I've got a thread in the hardware forum that nobody has replied to :(