Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119063
Compaq laptop USB HID crash at boot. nousb flag does not help
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:38 EST
Description: System will not boot: various error messages (noted below in 'additional information') - 1 minute pause whilst initialising USB HID interface. Use of 'nousb' flag or variants (listed below) appear to have no effect. I don't really need USB support in linux (I have a USB scanner I can live happily without), and would be happy with a temporary fix that disables it entirely. Reproducability: Every time, regardless of use of nousb flag. Steps to reproduce: 1. Installed Fedora, used nousb flag 2. Attempt to boot off it; optionally using 'nousb', 'nousb noauto', 'nousb pci=off' or no appendage to the kernel line in GRUB. - it makes no difference. 3. System crashes. Actual Results: See 'Additional Information' for full results. Fine up until that point. Expected Results: Fedora should have booted into either Gnome, KDE or a console. Additional information: Compaq Evo N1015v (laptop). Known problems with USB support on this model; attempted to disable with nousb flags, still get USB messages! Output to Console 1: ... Initialising USB controller (usb-ohci) [ OK ] Mounting USB filesystem [ OK ] Initialising USB HID interface >> At this point the system pauses for a minute or so. On the graphical side the 'determining hostname' message disappears and the spinner continues to spin. The system then flips to a black screen with a functional 'X' cursor [X windows]. Reverting to console 1 yields the following: sadly the screen depth isn't sufficient to get the full error message...<< [FAILED] *** An error ouccured during the system file check. *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot *** when you leave the shell. /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 555: /sbin/sulogin: Input/output error Unmounting filesystem Warnning: Error reading /etc/fstab: Input/output error mount: can't find / in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Auto reboot in progress /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 561: /sbin/reboot: Input/output error Mounting Local filesystems: [ OK ] Enabling local filesystem quotas: execvp: Input/output error [FAILED] ... >> more errors <<
I don't see HID support (hid.ko) in the ramdisk for ppc. Maybe related?
hid is built in and not a module so you wouldn't see it in the ramdisk :)
in 2.6.4-1.298-ppc: .config contains CONFIG_USB_HID=m the file /lib/modules/2.6.4-1.298/kernel/drivers/usb/input/hid.ko exists and Paul Nasrat's patch for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119411 adds it to mk-images should it be built in? this is the pmac_defconfig iirc.
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