I recently upgraded from Ubuntu (amd64 version) Gusty Gibbon (7.10) to Hardy Heron (8.04) on my laptop. All my devices worked fine under Gusty, but now under Hardy all my usb devices stop working AFTER I LOG IN. To clarify, everything works fine until about half way between entering my password and the gnome desktop appears. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. To try and figure out the source of the problem, I've done a few experiments: When I start just a terminal, lsusb returns all my devices as it should. My external HS mounts and is read and writable. Once the desktop loads and everything stops working lsusb runs very slowly, but eventually returns that only my mouse is recognized. I entered dmesg into the terminal to what was going on, and recieved the following output: rodoyle@rodoyle-laptop:$ dmesg|grep usb [ 242.373365] usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [ 250.655555] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 5, error -110 [ 250.705290] usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 [ 263.433882] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 6, error -110 [ 263.546182] usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 [ 273.826518] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 7, error -110 [ 273.946031] usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 [ 284.092649] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 8, error -110 [ 284.092688] usb 3-3: USB disconnect, address 3 [ 284.236518] usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9 [ 299.230923] usb 3-3: device not accepting address 9, error -110 [ 299.354832] usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10 [ 312.732137] usb 3-3: device not accepting address 10, error -110 [ 312.782795] usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 [ 319.201860] usb 3-3: device not accepting address 11, error -110 [ 319.255041] usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 12 [ 328.936420] usb 3-3: device not accepting address 12, error -110 [ 353.997329] usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 14 [ 368.645358] usb 3-3: device not accepting address 14, error -110 [ 368.744822] usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 15 [ 377.244074] usb 3-3: device not accepting address 15, error -110 [ 377.355981] usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16 [ 385.657694] usb 3-3: device not accepting address 16, error -110 [ 385.707431] usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 17 Here is an interesting section of the un-grepped output of dmesg from a different start up: [ 94.304981] irq 11: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [ 94.304990] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P 2.6.24-16-generic #1 [ 94.304992] [ 94.304993] Call Trace: [ 94.304995] [] __report_bad_irq+0x1e/0x80 [ 94.305041] [] note_interrupt+0x2ad/0x2e0 [ 94.305052] [] handle_level_irq+0xb3/0x120 [ 94.305061] [] do_IRQ+0x7b/0x100 [ 94.305067] [] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa [ 94.305083] [] handle_IRQ_event+0x19/0x70 [ 94.305095] [] handle_level_irq+0x9b/0x120 [ 94.305103] [] do_IRQ+0x7b/0x100 [ 94.305108] [] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa [ 94.305111] [] :processor:acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x162/0x1cb [ 94.305143] [] :processor:acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x158/0x1cb [ 94.305149] [] default_idle+0x0/0x40 [ 94.305155] [] cpuidle_idle_call+0xa2/0xe0 [ 94.305158] [] default_idle+0x0/0x40 [ 94.305161] [] cpuidle_idle_call+0x0/0xe0 [ 94.305164] [] cpu_idle+0x6f/0xc0 [ 94.305171] [] start_kernel+0x2b5/0x340 [ 94.305178] [] _sinittext+0x12e/0x140 [ 94.305187] [ 94.305188] handlers: [ 94.305189] [] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x60 [usbcore]) [ 94.305214] [] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x60 [usbcore]) [ 94.305227] [] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x60 [usbcore]) [ 94.305239] [] (ohci_irq_handler+0x0/0x910 [ohci1394]) [ 94.305247] [] (yenta_interrupt+0x0/0xc0 [yenta_socket]) [ 94.305255] Disabling IRQ #11 [ 94.307868] ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode. <- A clue? [ 94.308483] ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to interrupt mode [ 102.292857] usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 [ 113.635803] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 2, error -110 [ 113.685538] usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 [ 123.757156] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 2, error -110 [ 123.806898] usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 [ 128.438908] usb 3-1: device not accepting address 2, error -110 [ 128.488642] usb 3-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 I have read a few posts, but most people have not been able to resolve this issue sufficiently (if you find one I should check out please link me). THINGS KNOWN: * It is not a device issue. All devices work on other machines (windows and ubuntu). Every usb device I have tried does not work on my computer. * It is unlikely a hardware issue with the usbhost. All devices are properly recognized when only a terminal is run and worked great under Gustry. Other devices such as my keyboard and touchpad work fine as well. * Resetting the xorg.conf file does not resolve the issue (this was a theory based on the mouse not working). It does seem to slightly delay the onset of the problem by 1 minute. Based on the dmesg output posted above I feel that there is some error in addressing in how the desktop manages usb devices. I am totally stuck on this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need any more info, just let me know.

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2008-05-03	John Rose	Answer	Answered
2008-05-03	rodoyle	Confirm	Solved
2008-05-03	John Rose	Comment	Solved
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2008-10-12	MT	Comment	Solved
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