"usb usb4: string descriptor 0 read error: -19" message at boot in Warty.

[Brian Durant]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:20:01 +0100, Martijn van de Streek
<martijn at foodfight.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2005, Brian Durant wrote:
> 
> > > > > Could be anything -- you might want to start looking for
> > > > > interrupt/APIC problems first.
> > > >
> > > > I am a newbie and haven't got a clue about how to diagnose an
> > > > interupt/APIC problem. Where do I start?
> > >
> > > On the wiki: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki
> > >
> > > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DebuggingIRQProblems might be of help.
> >
> > Under developer's info in the Wiki 8-) Not exactly a place where a
> > newbie like me would look! Anyway, I asume that this has to be done by
> > pressing the ESC key when GRUB loads at startup and then adding the
> > "noapic" boot parameter  somewhere?
> 
> Yes, that's the easiest way to test.

OK, I tried noapic, nolapic, pci=noacpi, acpi=off and nothing changed.
The message was still there as bright as day. I am not experiencing
any system crashes (knock on wood), so I am not really sure where to
go from here.

Cheers,

Brian