Comment 52 for bug 54273

I have this problem on two laptops: a HP 530 and a Compaq CQ61, when plugging in my Sansa Clip music player, and also several times with external hard drives. My usb memory stick works fine, so I suspect that it only affects powered devices, as mentioned above.

I've had the issue on the HP since Karmic -- Intrepid and Jaunty worked OK, so I consider this a regression on that machine. I wondered if it was just flaky USB hardware, but now I have a new Compaq and it suffers the same issue. I reinstalled Windows on the HP, and now the Sansa connects just fine, so it is definitely a problem with Linux.

I've just attached the player to a few different ports on my Compaq, with subtly different results in the logs, so I'm attaching them here.