Error on boot...

twager

Suddenly my Ubuntu partition has refused to boot and I get this message
continuously going up the screen...

usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
usb 4-1: device not accepting address 8, error -71
usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9

There have been no alterations to the system since I last booted..
Anyone tell me how I can fix this ?



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Regards
Ted Wager g3tpi
High Peak UK
Using Sidux Linux

Moog

twager illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
> Suddenly my Ubuntu partition has refused to boot and I get this message
> continuously going up the screen...
>
> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
> usb 4-1: device not accepting address 8, error -71
> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
>
> There have been no alterations to the system since I last booted..
> Anyone tell me how I can fix this ?

You're booting from a USB Key or Hard Drive?

You've got read/write errors on a USB device. Is this what you boot
from?

If not, check your BIOS and set it back to your internal hard drive.

If so, download the Ubuntu Live/CD or SysrescCD and boot from
either. Copy the data off your USB drive pretty damn sharpsih.
Ideally onto another one.

--
Moog

"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the
leather straps."

Ted Wager

Moog wrote:
> twager illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>> Suddenly my Ubuntu partition has refused to boot and I get this message
>> continuously going up the screen...
>>
>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
>> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
>> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
>> usb 4-1: device not accepting address 8, error -71
>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
>>
>> There have been no alterations to the system since I last booted..
>> Anyone tell me how I can fix this ?
>
> You're booting from a USB Key or Hard Drive?
>
> You've got read/write errors on a USB device. Is this what you boot
> from?
>
> If not, check your BIOS and set it back to your internal hard drive.
>
> If so, download the Ubuntu Live/CD or SysrescCD and boot from
> either. Copy the data off your USB drive pretty damn sharpsih.
> Ideally onto another one.
>
Booting from small partition on hdb4. Odd thing is my main partition
using Sidux hdb1 boots ok with no error messages.



--
Regards
Ted Wager
High Peak UK
Using Ubuntu Hardy Linux

Mark South

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:09:04 +0000, Ted Wager wrote:

> Moog wrote:
>> twager illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>>> Suddenly my Ubuntu partition has refused to boot and I get this message
>>> continuously going up the screen...
>>>
>>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
>>> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
>>> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
>>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
>>> usb 4-1: device not accepting address 8, error -71
>>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
>>>
>>> There have been no alterations to the system since I last booted..
>>> Anyone tell me how I can fix this ?
>>
>> You're booting from a USB Key or Hard Drive?
>>
>> You've got read/write errors on a USB device. Is this what you boot
>> from?
>>
>> If not, check your BIOS and set it back to your internal hard drive.
>>
>> If so, download the Ubuntu Live/CD or SysrescCD and boot from
>> either. Copy the data off your USB drive pretty damn sharpsih.
>> Ideally onto another one.
>>
> Booting from small partition on hdb4. Odd thing is my main partition
> using Sidux hdb1 boots ok with no error messages.

Firstly, if you're using Ubuntu Hardy (as per your signature) then it must
be alpha-minus-minus-minus at this stage, so who really knows what is
happening?

Is it at all possible that you still have a USB device connected that you
haven't noticed, or did you not remove a USB device cleanly before the
last shutdown?

Dirk T. Verbeek

twager wrote:
> Suddenly my Ubuntu partition has refused to boot and I get this message
> continuously going up the screen...
>
> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
> usb 4-1: device not accepting address 8, error -71
> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
>
> There have been no alterations to the system since I last booted..
> Anyone tell me how I can fix this ?
>
>
>
It won't hurt to run up a LiveCD and do an fschk on the disk...

Ted

Mark South wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:09:04 +0000, Ted Wager wrote:
>
>> Moog wrote:
>>> twager illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>>>> Suddenly my Ubuntu partition has refused to boot and I get this message
>>>> continuously going up the screen...
>>>>
>>>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
>>>> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
>>>> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
>>>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
>>>> usb 4-1: device not accepting address 8, error -71
>>>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
>>>>
>>>> There have been no alterations to the system since I last booted..
>>>> Anyone tell me how I can fix this ?
>>> You're booting from a USB Key or Hard Drive?
>>>
>>> You've got read/write errors on a USB device. Is this what you boot
>>> from?
>>>
>>> If not, check your BIOS and set it back to your internal hard drive.
>>>
>>> If so, download the Ubuntu Live/CD or SysrescCD and boot from
>>> either. Copy the data off your USB drive pretty damn sharpsih.
>>> Ideally onto another one.
>>>
>> Booting from small partition on hdb4. Odd thing is my main partition
>> using Sidux hdb1 boots ok with no error messages.
>
> Firstly, if you're using Ubuntu Hardy (as per your signature) then it must
> be alpha-minus-minus-minus at this stage, so who really knows what is
> happening?
>
> Is it at all possible that you still have a USB device connected that you
> haven't noticed, or did you not remove a USB device cleanly before the
> last shutdown?

Well...
I have stripped the box down and got rid of the dust...Had a vacuum
round it and put all back together and the error message has gone
and all distros boot..I cannot understand though why I got Sidux to boot
and not Ubi...
Hardy Heron is on my other machine which I sent the mail from...
Many thanks to all who replied...

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Regards
Ted Wager G3TPI
High Peak UK
Using Ubuntu Gutsy Linux

Mark South

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:00:57 +0000, Ted wrote:

> I have stripped the box down and got rid of the dust...Had a vacuum
> round it and put all back together and the error message has gone
> and all distros boot..

So there was conductive dirt shorting one of the USB sockets?

In your honour, we'll need to add "vacuum your machine before you ask
a question" to the group FAQ.

That would have been pretty difficult to diagnose from here :-)

> I cannot understand though why I got Sidux to boot
> and not Ubi...

Because Ubuntu probes USB at a different stage of the boot process, it
would seem....

Moog

Ted Wager illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
> Moog wrote:
>> twager illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>>> Suddenly my Ubuntu partition has refused to boot and I get this message
>>> continuously going up the screen...
>>>
>>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
>>> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
>>> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
>>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
>>> usb 4-1: device not accepting address 8, error -71
>>> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
>>>
>>> There have been no alterations to the system since I last booted..
>>> Anyone tell me how I can fix this ?
>>
>> You're booting from a USB Key or Hard Drive?
>>
>> You've got read/write errors on a USB device. Is this what you boot
>> from?
>>
>> If not, check your BIOS and set it back to your internal hard drive.
>>
>> If so, download the Ubuntu Live/CD or SysrescCD and boot from
>> either. Copy the data off your USB drive pretty damn sharpsih.
>> Ideally onto another one.
>>
> Booting from small partition on hdb4. Odd thing is my main partition
> using Sidux hdb1 boots ok with no error messages.

USB?

--
Moog

"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the
leather straps."

Moog

Mark South illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:00:57 +0000, Ted wrote:
>
>> I have stripped the box down and got rid of the dust...Had a vacuum
>> round it and put all back together and the error message has gone
>> and all distros boot..
>
> So there was conductive dirt shorting one of the USB sockets?
>
> In your honour, we'll need to add "vacuum your machine before you ask
> a question" to the group FAQ.

It's incredible what a quick clean can ahieve. I had a none booting PC
that wouldn't boot due to inches of dust on the PSU fan blades.

> That would have been pretty difficult to diagnose from here :-)
>
>> I cannot understand though why I got Sidux to boot
>> and not Ubi...
>
> Because Ubuntu probes USB at a different stage of the boot process, it
> would seem....

Quite.

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Moog

"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the
leather straps."

Unregistered - Gijs

I had the same problem (but error -110 instead of -71) and vacuuming did the trick!