Re: ehci_hcd 3 strikes!

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Steve Suehs wrote:

> Apparently my USB controller is flippin' out, and the driver is
> throwing it out of the game.  3 strikes!  It's outta here!
> Please let me know what information I can provide that might be helpful.
> 
>   I'm getting a lot of this in messages.log
> 
> Mar 31 15:06:34 tbone drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: error -19 
> reading printer status
> 
> and the drive filled up with a log full of this
> 
> Mar 31 15:00:01 tbone ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: devpath 5 ep0in 3strikes

These sorts of errors are usually caused by bad hardware, such as 
low-quality USB cables.  Often the culprit turns out to be a cable inside 
the computer case connecting the USB port to the motherboard.  But 
sometimes the device itself is at fault.

> The command lsusb hangs the process solid.  No ctrl-Z or ctrl-C.

To get more information, turn on CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and see what appears in 
the dmesg log.

Alan Stern


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