String descriptor read error on startup

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:54:32PM -0400, Seth Williamson wrote:

> I am running Warty final.  When I reboot and the process reaches the
> Common Unix Printing system section, I get repeated lines of something
> that reads like
> 
> usb 2-1.2: string descriptor read error: 110
> 
> The boot process reels out eight or ten lines of this before finally
> taking off again, and it slows the process down a LOT.

Try booting with the 'noapic' option and see if that helps.  If not, try
'pci=noacpi' and finally 'acpi=off'.

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 - mdz