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USB flash not recognized by installer

Wed Aug 2 03:43:51 UTC 2017 and Fri Aug 4 19:22:07 UTC 2017 updates do not recognize and write USB flash stick on a clean install (on 2 different systems and flash drives). Can anyone else confirm this.

EDIT:

This is very strange so bare with me.
iso's from http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/sla...4-current-iso/
Fri Jul 28 20:29:47 UTC 2017 updates.
Clean Install: ok. usable system after reboot.

Wed Aug 2 03:43:51 UTC 2017 updates.
Clean Install: does not recognize/writes usb flash to fstab. goes straight to source media selection. Installs ok, You just have to write the usb flash to fstab yourself, usable system after reboot.

Fri Aug 4 19:22:07 UTC 2017 updates.
Clean Install: does not recognize/writes usb flash to fstab. goes straight to source media selection. Installs ok. During system configure, no root account is written and you can not set a password. chroot /mnt (I have no name!@slackware:#) you can not adduser. unusable system after reboot.

This happens on 2 different systems and 2 new USB flash drives (2nd time around).

It may help posting "lsmod" "lsusb" and "dmesg|tail" before and after it's plugged in.

Fri Aug 4 19:22:07 UTC 2017 updates.
Dropping to chroot /mnt after clean install:

lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by

uas                    14341  0

usb_storage            55782  2 uas

hid_generic            1615  0

usbhid                38908  0

xhci_pci                5437  0

r8169                  72915  0

dcdbas                  6935  0

intel_rapl            11931  0

xhci_hcd              117026  1 xhci_pci

i2c_i801              18315  0

drm                  325293  0

mii                    5143  1 r8169

i2c_smbus              4141  1 i2c_i801

agpgart                32309  1 drm

i2c_algo_bit            6079  0

i2c_hid                13304  0

hid                  108240  3 i2c_hid,hid_generic,usbhid

wmi                    8890  0

i2c_core              51220  5 i2c_hid,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801,i2c_smbus,drm

pinctrl_sunrisepoint    17520  0

video                  32138  0

pinctrl_intel          10821  1 pinctrl_sunrisepoint

button                  7994  0

acpi_als                3008  0

kfifo_buf              3480  1 acpi_als

industrialio          53912  2 acpi_als,kfifo_buf

fjes                  23014  0

loop                  21279  0

lsusb

Code:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003  

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 8087:07dc  

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0129  

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 064e:920b  

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c52f  

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0204:6025  

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002

dmesg | tail

Code:

[  765.015521] scsi host5: usb-storage 1-2:1.0

[  766.064519] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access    CBM      Flash Disk      5.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2

[  766.065320] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 2062848 512-byte logical blocks: (1.06 GB/1007 MiB)

[  766.065494] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off

[  766.065499] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08

[  766.065649] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found

[  766.065652] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through

[  766.067215]  sdc: sdc1

[  766.068249] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk

[  773.971628]  sdc: sdc1

Quote:

Originally Posted by sigkillall (Post 5744783)

EDIT:
no root account is written and you can not set a password

Could be the latest glibc upgrade that prevents it.
See this post from yesterday.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sigkillall (Post 5744783)

updates do not recognize and write USB flash stick on a clean install (on 2 different systems and flash drives). Can anyone else confirm this.

The dmesg output looks fine to me, it usually complains when something is wrong with the drive.
Got no hardware here that uses xhci or uas, all I got is ehci_pci/ohci_pci so I can't really replicate any of that.