Odd boot error today

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Noticed the different color scrolling past, battery reports 92%…

GROK thinks…
“Almost certainly refers to the USB controller / driver on the RP1 chip. The line
usb 1-1.3: dub_usb_v2: rc.query() failed=-71
is a USB enumeration / initialization error.
Error code -71 = EPROTO (protocol error) — very common on Raspberry Pi when:
A USB device is flaky / draws too much current
Bad cable
USB hub issues
EMI / power noise
Marginal power supply
Occasionally a driver quirk during very early boot while the RP1 is still initializing
On Pi 5 this kind of message appears quite often (even on perfectly working systems) for devices that later recover or just aren’t critical”

Plugged into usb charger and the boot error vanished. Battery percentage error ?. Yet unplugged charger and rebooted, error returned. Back on charge error again ?

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Did “GROK” provide citations? Unless you do something with the information your gas station attendant, AI chatbot, or drug dealer provides, it’s not useful to us, and muddies the water with (in every case, often hallucinatory) speculation; either research and verify what it tells you or leave it be.

If the problem goes away when you plug in the computer it’s likely a current draw issue. What hardware do you have attached? You could either lighten the electrical load on the bus, get batteries that support faster discharge (deliver more amps), or ignore the message; if it’s not affecting functionality it probably isn’t a big deal and probably won’t cause damage.

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