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[SOLVED] USB Sticks not showing up at all!

Hi guys, today when trying to mount a usb stick i noticed that none of them show up at all, in neither usb port. I'm running Artix-Runit, Kernel 6.8.2-artix1-1 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X13 Yoga

Tried the following things, but found no usb stick or usb-related errors:

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$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
nvme0n1     259:0    0 931.5G  0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   260M  0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0    16M  0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 475.7G  0 part /mnt/windows
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4    0  1000M  0 part
├─nvme0n1p5 259:5    0     1G  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p6 259:6    0    20G  0 part [SWAP]
└─nvme0n1p7 259:7    0 433.6G  0 part /

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$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 30c9:0026 Luxvisions Innotech Limited Integrated Camera
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 058f:9540 Alcor Micro Corp. AU9540 Smartcard Reader
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 8087:0026 Intel Corp. AX201 Bluetooth
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

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$ usb-devices

T:  Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=480  MxCh= 1
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=1d6b ProdID=0002 Rev=06.08
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 6.8.2-artix1-1 xhci-hcd
S:  Product=xHCI Host Controller
S:  SerialNumber=0000:00:0d.0
C:  #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   4 Ivl=256ms

T:  Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=10000 MxCh= 4
D:  Ver= 3.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=03 MxPS= 9 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=1d6b ProdID=0003 Rev=06.08
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 6.8.2-artix1-1 xhci-hcd
S:  Product=xHCI Host Controller
S:  SerialNumber=0000:00:0d.0
C:  #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   4 Ivl=256ms

T:  Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=480  MxCh=12
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=1d6b ProdID=0002 Rev=06.08
  • dmesg: https://pastebin.pl/view/4c89c50b
  • When plugging it in, the light on my usb stick turns on for about one second, so I thought that maybe usb autosuspending was the problem, so I installed 'tlp' and set USB_AUTOSUSPEND="0" but that did nothing :(
  • also looked inside the UEFI but everything usb-related that I could find (which wasn't a lot) was turned on.


I'd be very thankful for any suggestions you could have!

Re: USB Sticks not showing up at all!

Reply #1
Could it be a hardware issue, e.g. an internal fault on the motherboard?

Does any other usb hardware get recognised, mouse, keyboard, etc.?

I am presuming that the usb sticks used to work on that machine?

 

Re: USB Sticks not showing up at all!

Reply #2
I'd try on lts kernel.

Re: USB Sticks not showing up at all!

Reply #3
Could it be a hardware issue, e.g. an internal fault on the motherboard?

Does any other usb hardware get recognised, mouse, keyboard, etc.?

I am presuming that the usb sticks used to work on that machine?


I tried keyboard and mouse, but they didn't work, I thought the mouse would light up for a second like the usb stick but it didn't. I also tried a USB-C dock which was recognised in lsusb but no usb sticks could be detected through that either. Then i tried it on a windows partition and it worked fine... bitter defeat.


That fixed it! Thank you so much! Now, could you tell me if running an LTS kernel has any tangible drawbacks for me?
Anyways, I learned how to make grub play a melody, that was worth it alone!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Play_a_tune

Re: USB Sticks not showing up at all!

Reply #4
LTS kernel is fine to run, sometimes recommended, but on your recentishly made laptop i'd recommend trying the main kernel again after a year or so.

Re: [SOLVED] USB Sticks not showing up at all!

Reply #5
Thank you, I'll check!