On Monday 09 December 2024 11:02:27 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 06:19:16 -0800 > > William Morder via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If it's something like a tiny dab of badly-applied solder on a > surface-mount connector somewhere having failed under the stress of > repeated > heating-cooling cycles, it would be hard to spot just by looking. Factory > defects happen, unfortunately. > > Do check the contacts inside the port for excessive filth or physical > damage if you haven't already, but it doesn't seem likely that that would > make the port fail with a device already connected to it, unless something > got jostled. > > E. Liddell I keep my laptop and other important stuff much cleaner than my living space. Regarding the problem in question, the mystery deepens; it has magically just gone away, or seems to have done. First I tried booting from live images. I didn't have the standard Debian or other live discs here, but I did have a couple of homemade live DVDs, one by Nik and another of unknown provenance. They didn't do much beyond booting up, didn't actually get into the GUI, etc. So then I went back to my own custom Devuan OS with TDE installed. Just for kicks, I tried inserting my flash drive into that problematic third USB port. This is the one I generally use for bigger SSDs, or even for my heavy-duty powered 13 port hub, if I need to use several external SSDs. (This flash drive *is* my complete operating system, as I don't have an internal hard drive at the moment.) And bingo, no problem. My system booted up as usual, even though I was booting the flash drive from that third, formerly non-working, USB port. I tried one of my SSDs in the second port (which I generally use for the flash drive with my OS). Again, no problem, the SSD mounted as usual. Then I shut down, switched back to my usual manner of working, booting from the flash drive inserted in my second port, and again, everything worked like normal. Then I tried my SSD in the third port, and again, it mounted normally, just as if nothing unusal had happened, as though the past few days never happened at all, I don't have a clue why it stopped working, even after several reboots, then just started working normally again. About the only thing I can think is that it might be wise to switch round my ports, to use them for different things, rather than maybe overburdening one with heavier activity, then not using it at all. My reason for using my ports like this is due to physical configuration: the unpowered USB hub that I use for my wireless receiver dongle, and for flash drives, has a kind of odd right angle kink, so that in effect I can only use it in the front port, or else I will block the other two. And I use the third or back port for larger SSDs or for my powered USB hub because I am less likely to jostle the middle port, where my running OS resides, and I don't want to disturb it. Thanks for all the suggestions and help. I am not sure if anything actually worked to correct it, but at any rate I seem back to normal (whatever that is), at least for now. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
