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Re: Why do I have to reboot to use the USB ports?
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2019, 05:03:09 PM »
 

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So nobody else has had this issue at all. That makes me feel special.

Hello Tyrannocaster,
you can reset the USB sub system these ways without rebooting - https://askubuntu.com/questions/645/how-do-you-reset-a-usb-device-from-the-command-line 

PS I gave you +1 for your comment, now you is special.
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Re: Why do I have to reboot to use the USB ports?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2019, 11:39:35 AM »
 

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LOL, I wouldn't even know how to do that! No, it's just a plain installation on a SSD. I just booted from a Bodhi Linux USB and tried using the flash drives and they all worked fine after removal and reinstallation. I haven't tried with a Linux Lite USB because I have to burn one and for some reason I seem to be short on drives at the moment. I need to try that, because maybe the Linux Lite USB disk will work fine too - that would be a real drag if it's just something that happens on an installed version.

But at least I had to reboot to get out of the Bodhi live disk, so I have one use of my USB disk left before I have to reboot. :-)
 

Re: Why do I have to reboot to use the USB ports?
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2019, 10:42:57 AM »
 

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Are you running Linux Lite as a VM in Qemu or OracleVB?

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Re: Why do I have to reboot to use the USB ports?
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2019, 10:48:48 PM »
 

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So nobody else has had this issue at all. That makes me feel special.
 

Re: Why do I have to reboot to use the USB ports?
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2019, 12:36:15 PM »
 

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Well, I had this problem all along and apparently nobody else did with 4.0 because I posted about it several times - I just didn't know I had to reboot. The 4.0 has been upgraded every week so it's as current as it can be. I'm not willing to go to 4.4 unless I have a good reason, and so far I don't see why the upgrade would fix it for me when nobody else had the problem before. It's very frustrating.

Maybe I should try booting off the 4.4 install ISO and see if I still have the problem.

I was hoping there is some sort of command line thing that would let me re-initialize the USB port. It seems really peculiar that the USB port works on bootup but stops letting me copy to it after I take a drive out. It reads fine from the re-inserted flash drive, though.
 

Re: Why do I have to reboot to use the USB ports?
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2019, 10:32:43 AM »
 

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I have no problems on linux lite 4.4. Upgrading within series is simple via lite upgrade.
And if not working install updates with "install updates" before upgrading.
 

Why do I have to reboot to use the USB ports?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2019, 09:38:44 AM »
 

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I've been using Linux Lite [4.0] for several months now with mostly no problems. However, there is one dealbreaker which I have been putting up with that has just gone too far. I didn't really understand the problem until yesterday, when I figured it out - although I only figured out the symptom, not the cause. I thought the USB performance was just erratic - sometimes I could copy files to a USB drive, sometimes I couldn't. Yesterday I figured out that when I can't copy to the USB drive, I have to reboot and it will work...until I remove the USB drive. From that moment, no matter what drive I stick in the USB port, the system won't let me copy anything to it.

Is there some way of re-initializing the USB port to avoid this? Obviously, this is not sustainable in a workflow context.

The machine is a HP Pavilion p6110f, if that helps.

Thanks,

Ty
 

 

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