Comment 4 for bug 874293

I am also affected by this bug and available to do some tests.

I think it is more likely a kernel or udev-level bug as the device keeps being connected then disconnected then reconnected again and again ... with this message :
[ 4050.892294] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, device number 7
[ 4051.132207] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device number 8 using uhci_hcd
[ 4051.317266] usb 3-1: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd mtp-probe rqt 128 rq 6 len 1024 ret -84
(the only difference being the device number which increases at each step)

Maybe we should try another distribution livecd to see whether this behavior comes from the kernel or the distribution ...