Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64914
usbkbd.o missing (was present in 2.4.7)
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:42:34 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: There is a long hang at boot-up during the usb part of the initialization scripts. Boot-up proceeds after several minutes, but my usb keyboard doesn't work after boot-up is completed. I notice that kernel 2.4.7 (RedHat 7.2) includes the module usbkbd.o, but the new kernel does not. I used the Redhat kernel configuration file to rebuild the kernel, but added support for the usbkbd.o module. This kernel was able to boot fine and produced a working keyboard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Reboot with the new 7.3 kernel 2. 3. Actual Results: Suspends on usb initialization. Expected Results: Should not have suspended on usb initialization. Additional info:
The decision on usbkbd was made and it is not coming back. We must investigate why hid fails to work on user's machine.
See also Bug 55878.
I would like to see the dmesg output of the problematic kernel. Please attach it to the bug, but do not drop it into the comment box. Also, please attach the contents of /proc/bus/usb/devices, preferably on both 2.4.18-3 and 2.4.18-3custom.
Created attachment 60985 [details] dmesg output after booting 2.4.18-3 (redhat kernel)
Created attachment 60986 [details] dmesg output after booting 2.4.18custom (made from standard linux kernel source distribution, not from RH 2.4.18-3 source RPM)
Created attachment 60987 [details] output of /proc/bus/usb/devices when using 2.4.18custom
I was unable to obtain /proc/bus/usb/devices after booting 2.4.18-3 as I do not have keyboard control in that case and thus could not access the file. The computer is firewalled so I can't log in remotely. Sorry about the delay in submitting the report. I have not had a good opportunity for rebooting the machine.
Thanks! Single /proc/bus/usb/devices is enough - I need it to identify the keyboard and controller. Pity to hit it on production box and we cannot experiment. I'll try to squeeze something from the dmesg outputs.
Please try the kernel from the latest beta, it has a fix for 55878. It may be the same thing. Get it from ftp.redhat.com, /pub/redhat/linux/beta/limbo/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS kernel-2.4.18-7.80.i386.rpm
Unfortunately, I see no change with kernel-2.4.18-7.80.i386.rpm. There still is a hang of a few minutes at boot during USB intialization and they keyboard is dead when the boot is complete.
Did anyone with this problem try 2.4.20-18.7 yet?