However I did notice a new error in the logs usb usb3-port2: connect-debounce failedĪt this point I decided to do a web search to see what that specific error means and that's how I landed on this page. I then tried unloading and re-loading usbhid sudo modprobe -r usbhid & sudo modprobe usbhid usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0 usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0538

usb 1-1.2: new low-speed USB device number 17 using ehci-pci usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 16 I found the following entries in the system log. Here are my interactions with the system. So I was puzzled and decided to check what was happening on my terminal. I have to point out that I still had power on the USB ports. The optical mouse on my laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 on the 4.15.0-51-generic kernel just quit working for some reason.įirst I tried the normal quick remedies that is unplugging and re-plugging first on the same port and then on the other two unused ports the mouse still didn't work.

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