USB seems to disconnect even though i have not touched it at all | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

solar copper Mar 25, 2025, 3:31 PM

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Hi, im having this problem with Arch Linux 32. Laptop model is IBM ThinkPad T40. After a while after it gets to the terminal, commands start failing, file not found errors and this squashfs error shows up.

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This problem doesnt happen in Windows XP, where USB's start randomly disconnecting

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So i dont think that its a hardware error

solar copper Mar 25, 2025, 3:48 PM

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It looks like for some reason /run/archiso/bootmnt is unmounting randomly

amber rose Mar 25, 2025, 4:06 PM

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@solar copper dmesg | less

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see if you can find something which includes usb

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/usb to search for it

solar copper Mar 25, 2025, 4:08 PM

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there are some maybe usb cable is bad errors

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some new devices

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registered new interface/device driver usb

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usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71

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thats about it

amber rose Mar 25, 2025, 5:04 PM

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solar copper Hi, im having this problem with Arch Linux 32. Laptop model is IBM ThinkPad T40....

I was going to say that the installer can be loaded to ram but it's the default and happens when there's enough ram https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio-archiso/-/commit/2e6dfe5055497088d4af4474e21444d39bb7c03e

GitLab

hooks/archiso: enable copytoram by default if sufficient RAM is ava...

Enable copytoram if the root file system image size is less than 4 GiB and if the estimated available memory is more than the root file system image size +...

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and you have <2G

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Make sure the port doesn't have dust

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crammed in there

solar copper Mar 25, 2025, 5:07 PM

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yeah i have 512MB of ram lmao

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i would swab the port but it doesnt fit

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there are no big piles of dust

amber rose Mar 25, 2025, 5:13 PM

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toothpick

solar copper Mar 25, 2025, 5:13 PM

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right

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i think i have some

#USB seems to disconnect even though i have not touched it at all