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derekdreery

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Registered: 2017-10-09

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Message `urb status -32` clobbering journald

I'm getting the following message repeatedly (about 100 times a second) in journald/dmesg

[10971.197655] usb 2-1.7: urb status -32

and it's using up all of a cpu, making my room really hot and wasting my electricity. Does anyone know

1) what the message means
2) how I work out which usb device it applies to (what does `usb 2-1.7` mean)
3) how to ignore the message in systemd-journald

Last edited by derekdreery (2019-08-04 13:56:16)

seth

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Re: Message `urb status -32` clobbering journald

- broken pipe, /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-* (pretty meaningless w/o context)
- cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1.7/id* /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1.7/product # you can compare product/vendor ids in lsusb
- you don't. journald is frankly pretty much crap. Also fixing the issue is much better than ignoring it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddPQAJSm2cQ

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derekdreery

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Registered: 2017-10-09

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Re: Message `urb status -32` clobbering journald

Thanks for the reply you've helped a lot!

It turns out it's an m-audio midi keyboard. I'll search the internet to see if anyone else gets the same problem.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Message `urb status -32` clobbering journald

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ … idi.c#L218

derekdreery

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Re: Message `urb status -32` clobbering journald

@loqs epic! I tried to grep for the source of the error but couldn't work out what to search for.

derekdreery

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Re: Message `urb status -32` clobbering journald

After playing with the keyboard, I recon that it's broken, because it's showing some erratic behavior.