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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 –
Quote from: rayburn – on
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.

Quote from: Ambie – on
I'd try on lts kernel.

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!