On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 04:23:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > damn. that means it some weird non-reproducible problem that only i > have so it's unlikey to get fixed any time soon > > i kind of guessed that when google didn't reveal hordes of people > complaining about USB in recent kernels.
in case anyone else is interested, the following post to lkml might hold the solution: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1301.2/00314.html haven't tested it myself yet, but apparently the ehci-hcd module has been split into two modules, ehci-hcd and ehci-pci. unless you specify the exact load order in /etc/modules or similar (i.e. to force ehci-pci to be loaded immediately before ehci-hcd), module auto-loading may cause one of the other *hci-hcd modules may load before ehci-pci. given that my DVB cards are PCI based (with VIA USB interfaces on them), this seems likely. and now that i know what to search for, there's even a bug report in debian against initramfs-tools: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700572 apparently there's a fix in initramfs-tools version 0.110 released on March 1st. this may even fix the problem for me without any further action - according to my boot logs, the last times i tried 3.7.8 and 3.8.2 were Mar 13 and Mar 16 respectively, but according to /var/log/dpkg.log, i didn't upgrade to initramfs-tools 0.110 until April 1st. > i think i'll try 3.8 again sometime soon without the Dell keyboard > plugged in. still haven't had time to test this, but now that i have a reasonable theory to test i'll try to find some time to boot 3.8.x again this week. craig ps: adding "-src" to google searches about kernel drivers makes it much easier to find bug reports, blog comments and mailing list posts rather than umpty-billion copies of the source code. duh, i should have remembered that. -- craig sanders <[email protected]> BOFH excuse #57: Groundskeepers stole the root password _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
