USB card reader prevents Sid from booting

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

If I boot a Sid system running 2.6.11-1-686 while a USB multi-card
reader is plugged into a USB port, the boot process hangs. I get the
grub menu and when I select the kernel to boot from, the screen goes
blank and nothing happens at all. If I boot by disconnecting the card
reader, all is normal and fine.

Here are some packages I have:
$> dpkg -l hal *dbus* *usb* *kernel-image*2.6.11* acpi* | grep ^ii
ii  acpi                                0.09-1         displays
information on ACPI devices
ii  acpid                               1.0.4-1        Utilities for
using ACPI power management
ii  dbus-1                              0.23.4-3       simple
interprocess messaging system
ii  dbus-glib-1                         0.23.4-3       simple
interprocess messaging system (GLib-b
ii  hal                                 0.4.8-2        Hardware
Abstraction Layer
ii  kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686           2.6.11-7       Linux kernel
image for version 2.6.11 on PPr
ii  kernel-image-2.6.11050501.alsa      10.00.Custom   Linux kernel
binary image for version 2.6.11
ii  libusb-0.1-4                        0.1.10a-16     userspace USB
programming library
ii  python2.3-dbus                      0.23.4-3       simple
interprocess messaging system (Python
ii  qc-usb-source                       0.6.3-1        source code for
QuickCam Express kernel modu
ii  usbutils                            0.71-5         USB console utilities


Any idea what could be going wrong?

thanks,
->HS


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