[Nut-upsuser] USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd usbhid-ups

[Thomas Gutzler]

Hi again,

Are there any thoughts, comments or suggestions for this problem or
should I just ignore it?

Tom

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 14:10, Thomas Gutzler <thomas.gutzler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I keep getting the following messages (or similar) in my syslog:
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763936.921566] usb 3-2: usbfs:
> USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd usbhid-ups rqt 161 rq 1 len 5 ret -110
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763936.972569] usb 3-2: usbfs:
> USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd usbhid-ups rqt 161 rq 1 len 5 ret -75
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763936.976568] usb 3-2: usbfs:
> USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd usbhid-ups rqt 161 rq 1 len 2 ret -71
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763936.980565] usb 3-2: usbfs:
> USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd usbhid-ups rqt 161 rq 1 len 2 ret -71
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763936.984567] usb 3-2: usbfs:
> USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd usbhid-ups rqt 161 rq 1 len 2 ret -71
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763936.988564] usb 3-2: usbfs:
> USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd usbhid-ups rqt 161 rq 1 len 2 ret -71
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763937.038568] usb 3-2: usbfs:
> USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd usbhid-ups rqt 161 rq 1 len 5 ret -71
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763937.041275] hub 3-0:1.0: port 2 disabled
> by hub (EMI?), re-enabling...
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763937.046927] usb 3-2: usbfs:
> USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd usbhid-ups rqt 161 rq 1 len 5 ret -71
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763937.046930] usb 3-2: USB disconnect,
> address 101
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763937.320015] usb 3-2: new full speed USB
> device using uhci_hcd and address 102
> Nov 23 11:38:08 io kernel: [763937.390033] hub 3-0:1.0: unable to
> enumerate USB device on port 2
> Nov 23 11:38:10 io kernel: [763938.570009] usb 3-2: new low speed USB
> device using uhci_hcd and address 103
> Nov 23 11:38:10 io kernel: [763939.456680] usb 3-2: configuration #1
> chosen from 1 choice
> Nov 23 11:38:15 io kernel: [763944.044783] generic-usb
> 0003:0463:FFFF.00AC: hiddev96,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [EATON
> ELLIPSE] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-2/input0
> Nov 23 11:38:16 io upsd[2392]: Data for UPS [new] is stale - check driver
> Nov 23 11:38:18 io upsd[2392]: UPS [new] data is no longer stale
>
> Sometimes it detects a low speed device right away without trying full
> speed first. Everything else is the same.
>
> I found a few similar posts on this list but none of them seemed to
> include a suggestion how to solve it and they were all for different
> UPSes. Possibly a bug in the driver?
> I got around 110 'USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd' within the last 8 hours
> and 12 'port 2 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling...'
>
> Even though I have two very similar UPSes (both MGE Ellipse 1500 via
> usb), only one of them seems to be having problems with the driver. I'm
> getting the odd 'data is stale' warning for the other ups (<10 per day)
> but it never caused the port to be disabled so far.
> I'm pretty sure it's not EMI because both cables are right next to each
> other and seem of similar quality.
>
> I've also noticed that the average system load has gone up from 0.1 to
> 0.3 after connecting both UPSes and setting up nut, which I didn't
> expect on a 2GHz dual core; I set pollfreq=30 for both in ups.conf.
> I'm running nut 2.4.1-2ubuntu4 on a 64 bit linux 2.6.28-16 kernel.
>
> Any suggestions?
> I'm happy to provide debug information or try out patches or the 2.5 tree.
>
> Cheers,
>  Tom