[arch-general] USB power cut in early userspace since recent update

[Sebastian Lipp]

Hello,

just reporting that my problem from end of June is solved. The recent
update to Linux 3.16.1-1 fixed it.

basti

Sebastian Lipp <bacuh at riseup.net> writes:
> Hi
>
> Since yesterdays pacman -Syu I'm unable to boot my system the usual
> way. My observation on that is the following.
>
> In early userspace the USB port's power gets cut for around a second
> which is indicated by the LED of the external drive I'm booting
> from. Therefore - as I further assume - recognition of the drive gets
> lost and decrypting and mounting of root is not possible. When I
> (un)plug the drive both actions get recognized as such but the device(s)
> don't get registered.
>
> I already guessed and tried to
>
> 1. reinstall syslinux bootloader,
> 2. (realize the power cut and) downgrade kernel,
> 3. downgrade (lib)systemd and
> 4. mkinitcpio
>
> from a chroot and reboot between each of the steps. Nothing of that
> helped.
>
> I will attach a grep of my pacman.log to show which pkgs where
> upgraded. There were no errors logged. I will happily provide any
> further information that might help directing me towards debugging and
> fixing that problem.
>
> Getting rid of the intermediate USB gets me rid of the described
> problem which is obviously no permanent solution.
>
> Thanks a lot.
> basti
>
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded alsa-lib (1.0.27.2-1 -> 1.0.28-1)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded alsa-utils (1.0.27.2-1 -> 1.0.28-1)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded bash (4.3.018-1 -> 4.3.018-3)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded hwids (20130915.1-1 -> 20140602-1)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded libsystemd (213-9 -> 214-2)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded pam (1.1.8-4 -> 1.1.8-5)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd (213-9 -> 214-2)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded libffi (3.0.13-4 -> 3.1-1)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded llvm-libs (3.4.1-2 -> 3.4.2-1)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa (10.2.1-1 -> 10.2.1-2)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa-libgl (10.2.1-1 -> 10.2.1-2)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded ati-dri (10.2.1-1 -> 10.2.1-2)
> [2014-06-24 19:19] [PACMAN] upgraded linux-firmware (20140316.dec41bc-1 -> 20140603.a4f3bc0-1)
> [2014-06-24 19:20] [PACMAN] upgraded linux (3.14.6-1 -> 3.15.1-1)
> [2014-06-24 19:20] [PACMAN] upgraded bbswitch (0.8-9 -> 0.8-11)
> [2014-06-24 19:20] [PACMAN] upgraded clamav (0.98.3-1 -> 0.98.4-1)
> [2014-06-24 19:20] [PACMAN] upgraded cmake (3.0.0-2 -> 3.0.0-3)
> [2014-06-24 19:20] [PACMAN] upgraded dhcpcd (6.3.2-1 -> 6.4.0-1)
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> [2014-06-24 19:20] [PACMAN] upgraded ffmpeg (1:2.2.3-2 -> 1:2.2.4-1)
> [2014-06-24 19:20] [PACMAN] upgraded file (5.18-1 -> 5.19-1)
> [2014-06-24 19:20] [PACMAN] upgraded filesystem (2014.06-1 -> 2014.06-2)
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> [2014-06-24 19:21] [PACMAN] upgraded svga-dri (10.2.1-1 -> 10.2.1-2)
> [2014-06-24 19:21] [PACMAN] upgraded syslinux (6.03pre12-3 -> 6.03pre17-1)
> [2014-06-24 19:21] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd-sysvcompat (213-9 -> 214-2)
> [2014-06-24 19:21] [PACMAN] upgraded talloc (2.1.0-2 -> 2.1.1-1)
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> [2014-06-24 19:21] [PACMAN] upgraded virtualbox-host-modules (4.3.12-3 -> 4.3.12-5)
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