I am experiencing some weirdness booting while an external USB storage device is attached. As background (and only because I hope it will give a clue as to the exact software set), I am currently running from a system that was installed from the Beta 0.8, base ISO.
If I leave my external 200GB hard drive, attached through USB cable, connected during the boot process, I get a number of errors during the auto configuration process. The log file reports this: >>> snip <<< Jan 24 06:48:44 slacker1 usb 3-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 Jan 24 06:48:44 slacker1 usb 3-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jan 24 06:48:44 slacker1 scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jan 24 06:48:44 slacker1 usb-storage: device found at 4 Jan 24 06:48:44 slacker1 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Jan 24 06:48:49 slacker1 usb 3-7: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 Jan 24 06:48:49 slacker1 usb 3-7: device firmware changed Jan 24 06:48:49 slacker1 usb 3-7: USB disconnect, address 4 Jan 24 06:48:49 slacker1 usb-storage: device scan complete Jan 24 06:48:49 slacker1 usb 3-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 Jan 24 06:48:50 slacker1 usb 3-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 24 06:48:56 slacker1 usb 3-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 24 06:48:56 slacker1 usb 3-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 Jan 24 06:48:57 slacker1 usb 3-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 24 06:49:02 slacker1 usb 3-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 24 06:49:02 slacker1 usb 3-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 Jan 24 06:49:08 slacker1 usb 3-7: device not accepting address 7, error -71 Jan 24 06:49:08 slacker1 usb 3-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 Jan 24 06:49:08 slacker1 usb 3-7: device not accepting address 8, error -71 >>> snip <<< From there I can often times boot the system, but not necessarily or always. For example, one time my sound card was not discovered. One time I got a failure on a partition that was not being mounted and the system halted. Rebooting has solved these problems. If I can successfully boot and start gnome while the hard drive was attached, the external drive will not show up as a mounted volume. When I unplug and plug the external hard drive again, my USB mouse will crap out, and only rebooting the computer will bring the mouse back again. If I leave *any* USB devices (flash drive for example) attached at boot time, I'll get similar scenarios as above. If I remove all USB devices, save the mouse, the system will boot correctly. I can start gnome, and I can plug the external drive into the USB port, and I can mount it through nautilus, but it will not auto mount in spite of having HAL daemon started, and having installed pmount and (for some reason unknown to me but reported in a forum) gnome-volume-manager. The last is a minor inconvenience, but the booting process being flaky is a bit disconcerting. I've commented out the entries in fstab except for the /, home and swap volumes. pmount is installed. My main problem is booting and what has caused me difficulties is trying to do is to get automount features to work again in gnome. It works fine on my other Arch partition which was installed a year ago or so, currently upgraded to testing. The old partition is booted with "earlymodules=piix". I did not install legacy IDE support on the new system. I am happy to post other information if someone has a clue as to what's going on here. I am unable to access this PC during the day, so I won't be able to reply until tonight. Your kind support would be appreciated. dViking _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
