[Hardware] kernel complaining about USB device

[StevenFriedrich]

I bought a Yubikey 5 Nano on Apr 1, and a 5 Ci on Apr 3. I programmed a static password into slot 2 (long press) to unlock my root partition during boot. This worked, without incident for about a week. On Apr 9th, I noticed the following errors in dmesg:

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usb 1-14: new full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
usb 1-14: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 1-14: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 1-14: new full-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
usb 1-14: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 1-14: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 1-14: new full-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
usb 1-14: Device not responding to setup address.
usb 1-14: Device not responding to setup address.
usb 1-14: device not accepting address 7, error -71
usb 1-14: new full-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
usb 1-14: Device not responding to setup address.
usb 1-14: Device not responding to setup address.
usb 1-14: device not accepting address 8, error -71

lsusb -tvv reveals:

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/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/8p, 10000M
    ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
    /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb2  /dev/bus/usb/002/001
/:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/16p, 480M
    ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1  /dev/bus/usb/001/001
    |__ Port 5: Dev 2, If 1, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
        ID 1050:0407 Yubico.com Yubikey 4/5 OTP+U2F+CCID
        /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-5  /dev/bus/usb/001/002
    |__ Port 5: Dev 2, If 2, Class=Chip/SmartCard, Driver=, 12M
        ID 1050:0407 Yubico.com Yubikey 4/5 OTP+U2F+CCID
        /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-5  /dev/bus/usb/001/002
    |__ Port 5: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
        ID 1050:0407 Yubico.com Yubikey 4/5 OTP+U2F+CCID
        /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-5  /dev/bus/usb/001/002
    |__ Port 6: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 1.5M
        ID 04f2:1717 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
        /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-6  /dev/bus/usb/001/003
    |__ Port 6: Dev 3, If 1, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 1.5M
        ID 04f2:1717 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
        /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-6  /dev/bus/usb/001/003
    |__ Port 9: Dev 4, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 1.5M
        ID 04f2:1718 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
        /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-9  /dev/bus/usb/001/004

I don't see what is device 1-14. I thought this might indicate that the Yubikeys were causing this. But it happens even without the Yubikey present. Perhaps the Yubikrys damaged my system? Perhaps someone checked in a change?

[arzgi]

Can you test it in another usb-port?

[StevenFriedrich]

These messages appear even when my yubikey is not plugged in. I think the yubikey damaged my usb ports.

[Aki]

Moved to "Hardware" sub-forum.

[pbear]

I think the yubikey damaged my usb ports.

Have never heard of a USB device doing anything of the sort. Can't even imagine how it's possible. We have the expression "correlation does not equal causation" for a reason.