[Mageia-dev] USB crash

[David W. Hodgins]

On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:18:54 -0500, Michel Catudal <michelcatudal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since the Jump drive for what I wanted to copy to I unplugged it.
> I then plugged in a 16GB jump drive. All USB device were gone. Mouse and keyboard unusable. Even if I disconnect and reconnect keyboard or mouse they did not come back. Only recourse was the reset button switch.

If there are no message in the log files, this could be a symptom
of an overloaded (on the +12v rail), which I have run into before. See

https://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.hardware/browse_thread/thread/5fa204fad269a977/b2d23cf9a9c8b6b9?q=group:alt.comp.hardware&hl=en&pli=1

Regards, Dave Hodgins