This is weird... (Not a good sign, eh? =)  I tried what you said.  I
rebooted into single-user mode and ran "sh -x /etc/..."  Errrr, oops.  I
just realized that I ran /etc/init.d/hotplug start (which, in turn, ran
/etc/hotplug/usb.rc start).  After, when I ran lsof, I noticed that the
printer module was indeed loaded.  Being a little surprised by this, I
ran hotplug stop and then start and this time, a lot more debugging was
printed out (all that USB setup info) and the printer module was not
loaded.  I tried it again and the same thing happened.

pete

On Tue, 06 Mar 2001, David Brownell wrote:

> Or there could be something wrong in the boot-time init code, so that
> a bit of shell script debugging is in order on your system.  Maybe you
> can boot in single-user mode and "sh -x /etc/hotplug/usb.rc start" to
> watch what it's doing wrong!  (Called by "/etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug start",
> as Greg suggested.)