No USB, dmesg say: "usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in" (or ep0out)

[Etienne Goyer]

Hardware is Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. kernel is 2.6.8.1-3-386. USB devices I
can test do not work (various mouse, D-Link DWL-122 WiFi adapter). Doing "sudo
lsusb" hang. It might unrelated, but at boot time, the "Starting hotplug..."
message take a very long time (about two minutes). Here is the output of "dmesg
| grep -i usb" :

etienne@bedlam:/var/log $ dmesg | grep -i usb
 USB VIY0 VIY1 HORN LID
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:05.2: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
uhci_hcd 0000:00:05.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using address 2
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:05.2-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
[<cc98c20f>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4e [usbcore])
usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in
usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in
usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in
usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in

With timeout message being repeated many times.

If I remove then reinsert a USB device, the revelant dmesg output is :

usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using address 3
usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0out

The USB controller module is uhci_hcd. If I boot without any USB device plugged
in, and do "sudo modprobe -r uhci_hcd; modprobe uhci_hcd", then all my devices
work correctly. Thus I suspect the problem lie somewhere within the USB subsystem.

This does not seem to be distribution-specific, as Fedora Core 2/3 have a
similar problem apparently. Check
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id128602

[Etienne Goyer (etienne-goyer-outlands)]

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id128602

URL should be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12860

[Etienne Goyer (etienne-goyer-outlands)]

This might related to hotplug somehow, as it break again as soon I remove or
insert a PCMCIA card.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I believe this bug is fixed in the 2.6.9 kernel in Hoary. Try booting with
"noapic" as a workaround.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8557.