Bug 30088

Summary:	USB2-port1 error; "bad cable?" (Dell XPS8950 w/AMD RX6600XT graphics)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Pierre Fortin <pfortin>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Pierre Fortin 2022-02-23 22:19:55 CET

Description of problem: Brand new system (see also 30087). 

On boot, besides no video, I was getting error messages about 1 per second complaining of USB2-port1 possible bad cable. Ran Dell diagnostics; all fine.

Swapped wired mouse and keyboard connections and error message no longer appears. Filing this because it should not matter which device is connected to port1; and to inform others of the workaround.


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Steps to Reproduce:
1. make wired keyboard/mouse connections to new machine.
2. boot up (no video due to bug 30087)
3. switch to other vtys; messages about once per second (no login required)

Comment 1 sturmvogel 2022-02-24 08:12:51 CET

Sorry for your bad start.
As this might related be related to a a real damaged cable this is nothing what Mageia can fix. USB-Ports on a machine are controlled by different hubs/controllers with different abilitys/functionalitys. So error messages on one port could occur even if they don't show up at another one.

Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME
Status: NEW => RESOLVED

Comment 2 Pierre Fortin 2022-02-24 10:26:22 CET

Everything is brand new out of the boxes.  Will see if Cauldron from a good mirror solves this...

Comment 3 Thomas Backlund 2022-02-24 19:31:27 CET

Yeah, just because everything is "new" cables and/or hw can be bad. also the connector could be dirty, or the hw in your system is from a "buggy revision" that might need new bios/firmware or some errata fix in the kernel... 

Theese things happends all the time, and sometimes as you noticed a fix can be as simple as switching port...