[SOLVED] USB flash not recognized by installer

sigkillall · 08-05-2017, 09:05 AM

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).

elcore · 08-05-2017, 09:32 AM

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

sigkillall · 08-05-2017, 02:41 PM

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

elcore · 08-06-2017, 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sigkillall

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

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.