Hey everyone, have a strange problem here.

I have been using my current setup for a few months now, and suddenly I am having an issue with my usb mouse. Both the keyboard and mouse are usb and both plug directly into the back of the machine.

Everything will work fine until I read a file off of a flash drive or my cell phone. When I do that, the mouse just stops where it is. Everything still works, the machine doesn't freeze, the mouse just quits. Unplugging and replugging the mouse does no good at all.

It funny because I have had the same things plugged into the usb ports for quite a while, and never had an issue, but now it happens every single time I try to write or read a file from a usb device. I have no idea where to even start. This is all that is there.

[root@localhost cory]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c018 Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 03f0:7d04 Hewlett-Packard Deskjet F2100 Printer series
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c315 Logitech, Inc. Classic New Touch Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Is there anything useful in the output of
dmesg | tail
?

Nothing that I've seen, no. Nothing at all. Of course nothing in the logs or anything either.

[cory@localhost ~]$ dmesg | tail
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 2068992 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.05 GB/1010 MiB)
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

Hey Quads - Have similar issue. HSB mouse. Using jaunty - does not seem to be related to any particular app certainly not 2 you mentioned. Have been opening every log file I can find, no luck. Only way out seems to be Alt-F1 which brings up menu and allows me to restart the system. Ubuntu is suppose to be default usb mouse but it looks as if when I close an app the system looses track of the mouse cursor. I'm wondering if there is a way to 'hard wire' the mouse ref to the usb address. Haven't been on Linux long enough to know my way around the config files or the instructions required.

Will watch your post, maybe your soulution may apply.