2.6.33: Xorg+khubd lockup (D-state) BUG / ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device / PreInit returned NULL

[Justin Piszcz]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Justin Piszcz wrote:

The same problem has been reported by another person, he says his entire 
system freezes, which, it appears to do unless you can SSH into the box:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=76797

Look at his lspci listing.
james at dv6105us:~$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)

Here is mine:
$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)

Looks like the bug may be in the USB subsystem for this chipset.

Justin.