[SUMMARY] V880 usb problem.

No obvious solution so far. Most likely culprit seems to be long usb
cables and/or bad usb connectors somewhere. 

David Foster suggested :

If you need longer runs you can use a standard minidin-8 Sun
keyboard/mouse (round 8-pin connector) and get a usb/minidin-8
converter from http://www.ultraspec.com . They have a $175 model
for really long runs, and a cheaper one for shorter ones. 

which I'll look into.

Thanks to Ronny Martin as well for, hmm, moral support. Seems sunboxes
can be a bit demanding in the cuddle department.


> I admin a V880 that have developed a somewhat strange problem. After a 
> reboot it doesn't find the usb mouse and dtlogin/X refuses to start.
> The console reports :
> lightning console login: Dec  9 16:21:38 lightning usba: WARNING: /pci@9,700000/usb@1,3 (ohci0): connecting device on port 1 failed
> 
> This happens even if I just do a "shutdown -i6 -y" and don't touch
> keyboard or mouse while waiting for the reboot.
> The only solution seems to be to unplug the usb cables, "cuddle" them
> and reinsert them, one or more times and then restart dtlogin. 
> We use fairly long usb extension cables and I realize this might cause a
> problem, but once the machine does see the mouse there's no problem.
> I've also tried a different set of mouse/keyboard and bypassed the
> extensioncables, still the same problem.
> 
> One might say that the solution is to avoid reboots, and I'd be happy to
> comply. However, we're doing fairly cutting edge development stuff and
> we keep getting new patches from sun so reboots are more or less
> unavoidable.
> 
> Any hints greatly apreciated.
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