Bug 291608 – kernel-2.6.31(?) reports "unable to enumerate USB device on port ..."

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Paulo J. Matos 2009-11-02 17:31:41 UTC]

Gentoo kernel after successful boot starts infinite loop reporting:
Nov  2 17:29:57 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Nov  2 17:29:57 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Nov  2 17:29:57 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Nov  2 17:29:57 turing kernel: usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 83
Nov  2 17:29:58 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Nov  2 17:29:58 turing kernel: usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 84
Nov  2 17:29:58 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Nov  2 17:29:58 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Nov  2 17:29:58 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Nov  2 17:29:59 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Nov  2 17:29:59 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Nov  2 17:29:59 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Nov  2 17:29:59 turing kernel: usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 90
Nov  2 17:29:59 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Nov  2 17:30:00 turing kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6



I am actually not doing anything... This needs to be solved. Not only delays USB communication as an infinite loop is generating huge logs which basically screw up my system.

Reproducible: Always




Portage 2.1.7.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_D_CPU_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/fax /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/fax/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/ http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/ ftp://gentoo.virginmedia.com/sites/gentoo "
LANG="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en pt de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="64bit X a52 aac acl acpi addressbook alsa amd64 applet auctex autotrace avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo capi caps cdda cddb cdr cdrom chipcard cleartype cli consolekit context cracklib crypt css csv cups cupsddk curl daap dbus deskbar detex disk-partition djvu dri dts dvb dvd dvdr dvi2tty dvipdfm ebook ecsteve ecsteve2 eds elf elisp emacs emacs22icons emboss encode evo exif expat extra extra-algorithms extras extratools faac faad fam fat fax ffmpeg fftw firefox firefox3 flac flash flickr fltk fontconfig fontforge foomatic foomaticdb fortran fuse games gconf gdbm ggi gif gimp gmp gnome gnutls gpm graphics graphviz gs gsf gstreamer gtk guile h323 hal hbci humanities iconv int64 ipv6 jadetex java java6 javascript jpeg jpeg2k karma kdrive kpathsea lame latex latex3 ldap libextractor libffi libnotify libssh2 lua mad md5sum mikmod mmx modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mtp mudflap multilib music mysql nautilus ncurses networking nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs odk ofx ogg omega opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd preview-latex pstricks publishers python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotes readline reflection reiser4 reiserfs scanner science sdl server session sip smp sourceview speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 srtp sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stats subversion svg swig sysfs taglib tcl tcpd templates tex tex4ht theora thunar tiff tk toolkit-scroll-bars tracker truetype type3 unicode usb vorbis wav webkit wifi wmf wxwidgets x264 xft xml xmp xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en pt de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia fbdev" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Paulo J. Matos 2009-11-02 17:32:14 UTC]

This shows up in other distros as well with other kernel versions:

Example:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/256767

[Comment 2 Paulo J. Matos 2009-11-02 17:37:15 UTC]

By the way, if the port 6 in the error message refers to bus then I have no bus 6. lsusb reports:
$ sudo lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0039 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Optical
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 012: ID 1058:0701 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hu

[Comment 3 Paulo J. Matos 2009-11-03 00:24:27 UTC]

Just found out that disconnecting my sd/mmc drive from the motherboard will stop this from happening. It is not a hardware problem as I have tried to connect the same drive to other pins (which I know are working fine) and the exact same happens. It seems to be related to how the kernel detects the drive... is this possible? Searching this error on google, it doesn't seem to be too uncommon!

[Comment 4 Mike Pagano 2009-11-04 15:58:59 UTC]

Can you post the dmesg so I can see anything that is written before the looping lines.

You can snip it once the "unable to enumerate " start to take over.

And, last working kernel version?

[Comment 5 Paulo J. Matos 2009-11-10 12:41:55 UTC]

This is a new gentoo install. There is no latest working kernel version. 
I disconnected the device so I am not getting the problem. I will try to reconnect it to post a complete dmesg.