It seems that USB device interface on my Tx2 dev kit have stopped working. - probably many more but these are the ones that make it difficult to use the Tx2…
As you can see from below: $lsusb and $lspci return nothing. Since this issue, I was able to re-flash the the Tx2 using the miniUSB port- thus indicating that the USB port, at least the miniUSB2.0, works. Strangely enough I was able to also ssh over Ethernet and run all software updates but I feel I have hit a road block trying to debug this issue. Mainly because shouldnt I see the network controller device when running $lspci.
Also the HDMI output works and when booting everything looks normal, i.e. nothing in the boot terminal fails.
nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install usbutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
usbutils is already the newest version (1:007-4).
usbutils set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apt-clone archdetect-deb dmeventd dmraid dpkg-repack gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0
gir1.2-xkl-1.0 kpartx kpartx-boot libappstream3 libdebian-installer4
libdevmapper-event1.02.1 libdmraid1.0.0.rc16 liblockfile-bin liblockfile1
liblvm2app2.2 liblvm2cmd2.02 libparted-fs-resize0 libreadline5
lockfile-progs lvm2 os-prober pmount python3-icu python3-pam rdate
ubiquity-casper ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork ubuntu-core-launcher
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ lsusb
nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ sudo lspci -vvv
nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$ lsusb -vvv
nvidia@tegra-ubuntu:~$