Bug#286515: Workaround: blacklist ehci-hcd
Call this black magic, but when I added ehci-hcd
to the top of /etc/hotplug/blacklist, everything started working O.K.
I think I can tolerate slightly lower data exchange rate with my USB
drives I occasionally plug, much more so than having the computer not
booting in a working X with a mouse and printer as it was before I applied
the workaround.
(The way I got on this was comparing the discover-era boot logs with the
present ones and seeing that ehci-hcd is a new thing by hotplug).
FYI: in 2.6, without the above hack (but, of course, with the modified
fstab to use sda instead of hda), the USB problems do not happen (but a
lot of other stuff to configure there remains).
V.
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