<div dir="auto">I have one bad port on my PC. If I plug flash drive and try to save something it scrambles everything. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 5, 2025, 09:27 Leam Hall via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/5/25 02:20, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 13:45:45 -0500<br>
> Leam Hall via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Running XFCE on Fedora 37, and for the past couple of weeks my mouse<br>
>> will occasionally freeze. The fix is to unseat the USB connection and<br>
>> reseat it, but I'm not seeing any common event happening to trigger<br>
>> the issue. I'm not seeing anything in /var/log/messages, but then<br>
>> again I'm not sure what to look for, either. Same for systemd logging.<br>
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>> Suggestions on where to start?<br>
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> If you haven't replaced your mouse's battery for more than a month, do<br>
> it now with a high quality alkaline battery. It might not fix the<br>
> problem, but it's one less variable to have to consider.<br>
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> SteveT<br>
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> Steve Litt<br>
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Wired USB. It seems to happen randomly, some days no issues, other days two or three times a day.<br>
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