On Sunday, February 27, 2022 1:01:06 PM EST E. Liddell
wrote:
On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 10:59:33 -0500
gene heskett <gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
someplace in my USB tree, there's at least
one, and probably more,
FDTI usb to serial adaptors that the installer THINKS is a Braille
driver, so it, without asking, installs brltty and orca, the speech
enabled screen reader no one can understand. And it, if you remove
the stuff after the install is done, will NOT reboot past the 10
second mark in the boot log cuz its stuck looking for that crap and
can't find it.
Very damned distracting when its trying to pronounce every key you
type and no one knows how to remove it without filling the boot
drive with>
/var/log/syslog until the system is unusable because of the lags
imposed>
by opening the log when its 50+ megabytes 18 hours after the install,
search for the end of it, writing 9 or 10 more lines of error
messages
and closing the log, for every keystroke typed.
The only fix I've found that lets my machine stay up for a few days,
(uptime is 7+ days atm) is to find the .conf files in /etc, and
direct
all that error output to /dev/null. That leaves one line of errors
still going to syslog about every 20 seconds as something in
systemd.d keeps looking for the speech dispatcher over blue tooth,
and there isn't any of that except the keyboad and mouse.
Sounds like you need to kill the service(s) involved using whatever
systemd's equivalent of rc-update is (or overwrite the service files
with no-ops and then make them unwritable so they can't be changed),
blacklist any kernel modules involved, and possibly write some udev
rules to force the problem device to be properly identified. Rather a
tedious process that would have to start with identifying the problem
device and its USB ID.
idVendor 0x0403 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
idProduct 0x6001 FT232 Serial (UART) IC
idVendor 0x0403 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
idProduct 0x6001 FT232 Serial (UART) IC
That device seems to be the device triggering all this hate and
discontent, but the differences in priority of whats to be done boggles
my mind.