[CoLoCo] My USB appears to have gone south

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:29:43PM -0600, Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
> I've not done anything but normal updates, as far as I know (although I
> did remove xsane so that the Gimp would load up.)
> 
> However, now when I plug in my camera, it's not recognized. Not only
> that, but usbview can't get it's info from /proc. gtkam hangs, lsusb
> hangs, gtkam hangs.  And by hangs, I mean you can't even kill -9 the
> processes.
> 
> It appears as if I've somehow hosed a bit of the usb mechanism - any
> pointers as what to search for or where to look to resolve this will be
> greatly appreciated.

Did you upgrade from * to gutsy?  You may be hitting an issue where there are
conflicts over the device drivers.

There is one package you pretty much need to remove, having to do with an
unmaintained volume manager thingy.  I can't remember the bug id, or the name
of the package, but I'll do some looking.