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Bug #156085 reported by TJ on 2007-10-23

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Bug Description
Gimpelevich
On Gutsy 64-bit using qemu/kvm (also VirtualBox and, I believe, Daniel Omar
VMWare) and the "-usb" switch no USB devices are available since Casta...
qemu/kvm looks for the description of them in the 'devices' file
Daniel Tai
of a usbfs mount at
Davi Thiesse
/proc/bus/usb/ Debian PTS
Doraann2
but the code previously providing the usbfs mount that is
Dustin Kirkland
created at start-up via /etc/rcS/S11mountdevsubfs.sh -->
/etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh was commented out. The USB devices Fabien Lusseau
are now reported at Franko Fang
GreatBunzinni
/dev/bus/usb/
Haochen Zhang
but currently there is no usbfs file-system mounted/linked there Harpianto,ANDI
to provide the 'devices' text-file. HaySayCheese
Hidagawa
qemu/kvm reports:
Iain
qemuctl -qemu vdeq kvm -boot c -m 512 -hda /home/all/ Jair Avillez
VirtualMachines/WindowsXP-SP2.ovl -net nic,vlan=0 -soundhw
James
es1370 -usb -net vde
Jesse Jones
info usbhost John Edwards
Could not open /proc/bus/usb/devices José Alfonso
Julio Faracco
$ ls -l /proc/bus/usb
total 0 Kamila
LPM
3 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
WORKAROUND: Lancillotto
To re-enable it edit the file '/etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh' and Liang Yan
uncomment the code after line 40 so it reads:
Marcel B
# Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work
Matt j
#
mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs Mauricio Faria
domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode= de...
0600,listmode=0644 Michael A. Phillips
ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices Michael Rowland
mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb H...
Execute the script manually to enable the change before a system
Mohan W
reboot:
Mr. MInhaj
$ sudo /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh start
Name Changed
See original description Onno Benschop
OrthoDoc
Tags: regression-release PCTeacher012
Paolo Topa
Patrice Vetsel
lp:ubuntu/karmic/madfuload Peter Bullert
lp:ubuntu/karmic/midisport-�rmware
Phil Moreland
lp:ubuntu/karmic/fxload
Phillip Susi
lp:ubuntu/maverick/fxload
Punnsa
TJ (tj) on 2007-10-23 QiangGuan

Rafael Campos
:updated Las...
Ricardo Sousa
Richard Seguin
Christopher Blay (blayde) wrote on 2007-10-27: #2
Richard Williams
Richard Zhang
would making a symbolic link to /sys/bus/usb from /proc/bus/usb
Ryan Harper
help or just screw everything up?
SEBASTIANFFX
Satheesh
Christopher Blay (blayde) wrote on 2007-10-27: #3 Rajendran
Scott James
alright, i take back my previous comment (i learned something Remna...
new today). anyways, would it be possible for whoever maintains Shirish Agarwal
this package to add TJ's patch and update the repos?
Spencer Yu
Sten-Arvid
TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-10-27: #4 Steve Langasek
Tero Karvinen
Your initial comment made me smile - it was the first thing I Thomas
tried. When I realised that wouldn't work I got smarter and did Bergmann
mount --bind /sys/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb Tom

Tom Weiss
and felt mighty pleased it worked! However qmeu/kvm still
Ubuntu
couldn't find any devices and I realised it was because in
Foundation...
/sys/bus/usb/devices all the device-links are relative, and
4 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
begin ../../../devices Unfortunately, in the /proc/bus/usb tree Ubuntu Server

that takes us to /proc/devices which is a regular file and Ubuntu Touch
already exists - drat, foiled again! seed...
If other's can confirm this is a problem on 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu
qemu and kvm I'll post apply the patch and post an SRU debdiff. Virtualisa...
Vasanth
Changed in qemu: Ventusfahrer
:nobody → intuitivenipple Vic Parker
:Undecided → Low
W. Prins
:New → In Progress
William F Pearson
Changed in kvm:
:nobody → intuitivenipple ZhiQiang Yan
:Undecided → Low adhyas
:New → In Progress ahepas
art alexion
basilisgabri
TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-10-28: #5
bundom@empas.com
There is a work-around that re-enables /proc/bus/usb/devices: chen

copacule
Support for /proc/bus/usb/* was removed in the initscripts
defcom
package (part of sysvinit), as per this changelog entry:
dennis hannigan
sysvinit (2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu22) gutsy; urgency=low
dsfkj dfjx
* Drop /proc/bus/usb again; software should all be ported to eoininmoran
check
esox
/dev/bus/usb first by now.
evuraan
-- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Jul 2007 f5pvg
13:47:24 +0100
fagan.pm
To re-enable it edit the file '/etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh' and ganesh
uncomment the code after line 40 so it reads: grphilar
# Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work guangming liu
# hhzuoguoyou
mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
hotdigi
domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=
kmkt50kmkt50
0600,listmode=0644
ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices knuszka
mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb liaoxiaojun
linuxgijs
Execute the script manually to enable the change before a system
reboot: longxingmiao
madshadow
$ sudo /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh start
mazy1984
I'm adding the sysvinit package to this bug-report since the
nikonikic42
changelog entry says applications should now use /dev/bus/usb,
niniocompu
but it seems that usb is the only 'bus' using that location.
Everything else uses /sys/bus/. Therefore it directly causes the paulvk8888
qemu/kvm problem. It seems illogical to require all applications payo
that access USB to be patched for this. projevie@hotmail.com
There's a related bug report for VirtualBox with a comment by qadir

Scott, but no rationale to why it was done.
5 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
Bug #151585 "USB Devices unrecognised by virtualbox (/proc qemu-devel-ml

/bus/usb missing)" richard fromger
roganlors
sankaran
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote on #6
2007-10-29: shan
stefab
Support for /proc/bus/usb has been dropped because it is racey, stg
and permissions are difficult to set -- compared with stokeybob
/dev/bus/usb which is maintained by udev and doesn't have these
superleaf1995
issues.
theclash
Ubuntu is not the only distribution to have dropped it. tiger74
If your software is using /proc/bus/usb, it is broken -- you've tscsengineer
had over a year to change it, and you've failed to do so. Please van
change your software to use /dev/bus/usb now.
vrozenfe
I've rejected your sysvinit bug; this is deliberate and is wangzhh
definitely not a bug. weo
Also your assertion about using /sys is entirely bogus - no wl�ghtup
devices exist under /sys. zenrox
Changed in sysvinit:
:New → Invalid
kvm -4ubuntu3
gutsy-proposed
TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-10-29: #7 debdi�
d
kvm -4ubuntu3
kvm -4ubuntu3 gutsy-proposed debdi� (1.4 KiB, text/plain) hardy debdi�
d
qemu -2ubuntu5
Scott, thanks for the explanation. When I'd re-aimed kvm at
gutsy-proposed
/sys/bus/usb/ I hadn't realised that it looks a for a file
debdi�
'devices'. I thought it was looking for the base of a directory-
d
tree containing the devices, which is what /sys/bus/usb/devices qemu -2ubuntu5
is. hardy debdi�
d
I'm not sure who is primary maintainer at Ubuntu - several Rebased qemu
people are listed as adding patches, and it's a MOTU package. -1ubuntu2 Hardy
I'm an end-user that wants the fix. debdi�
I've withdrawn the previous patch and created patches for kvm d
usbview: Debdi�
and qemu that use /dev/bus/usb/ and attached the debdiffs for
for Hardy [incorrect]
Hardy and Gutsy-proposed here.
d
usbview: Debdi�
TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-10-29: #8 for gutsy-proposed
[incorrect]
kvm -4ubuntu3 hardy debdi� (1.4 KiB, text/plain) d
Patch to kvm-77
to allow USB
passthrough with
qemu
TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-10-29: #9
d
6 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
156085-b.debdi�
qemu -2ubuntu5 gutsy-proposed debdi� (1.4 KiB, text/plain)
d
QEMU (KVM) USB
sys-fs support
TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-10-29: #10 d
Add patch
qemu -2ubuntu5 hardy debdi� (1.4 KiB, text/plain)
These patches fix an issue where qemu/kvm expects to find the Screenshot of
USB devices file at /proc/bus/usb/devices and reports an error qemuctl displaying
when started with the -usb flag as result. The location was USB devices
changed in July as a result of a patch to sysvinit and is now (846x708)
/dev/bus/usb/devices. d
Proposed
/etc/init.d
Changed in kvm:
/mountdevusbfs.sh
:In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in qemu:
d
:In Progress → Fix Committed mountdevubfs.sh
d
/var/log/udev with
TJ (tj) on 2007-10-29
Midisport plugged in
Changed in kvm:
d
:Fix Committed → In Progress Add attachment
TJ (tj) on 2007-10-29
Changed in qemu: debbugs #451191

:intuitivenipple → nobody [done normal]
:Fix Committed → Confirmed novell-bugs
Changed in kvm: #241950
:intuitivenipple → nobody [RESOLVED FIXED]
:In Progress → Confirmed
virtualbox-trac
TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-10-31: #11 #747
[�xed]
Screenshot of qemuctl displaying USB devices (846x708) (294.7 KiB,

Bug watches keep
image/png) track of this bug in
other bug trackers.
This is the kind of output to expect from the kvm/qemu debug
shell (easily accessible when using qemuctl). The attachment is
a screen-shot of qemuctl after doing Connect > USB > Renew.
(qemu) show usbhost

Device 4.2, speed 12 Mb/s
Class e0: USB device 044e:300d, UGX
Hub: USB device 04cc:1521
7 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
Class 00: USB device 07ab:fcc7, Freecom Mobile Drive
Hub: USB device 05e3:0606, USB2.0 Hub
Class 00: USB device 058f:6362, Mass Storage Device
Class 00: USB device 05ac:120a, iPod
Class 00: USB device 054c:002c, USB Floppy Drive
Class ef: USB device 05ca:1836
Emmet Hikory (persia) on 2007-11-08
Changed in qemu:
:nobody → persia
:Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in kvm:
:nobody → persia
Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote on 2007-11-08: #12
KVM Uploaded to hardy. Thanks. Waiting on patch refresh for

qemu.
Changed in kvm:
:In Progress → Fix Committed
Emmet Hikory (persia) on 2007-11-08
Changed in qemu:
:persia → intuitivenipple
:New → Invalid
TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-11-08: #13
Rebased qemu -1ubuntu2 Hardy debdi� (3.6 KiB, text/plain)
8 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
:updated
Changed in qemu:
:intuitivenipple → nobody
Chris Halse Rogers (raof) on 2007-11-11
Changed in kvm:
:Fix Committed → Fix Released
Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote on 2007-11-11: #14
We'd really prefer your original one-line patch to the new

version (although qemu upstream would probably be interested in
the new, general patch). We don't have to care about kernel
backwards-compatibility :).
Also, you have the wrong version numbers for your gutsy-proposed
debdiffs. The versioning of SRUs are a bit different to normal
development versioning. For these packages I'd suggest
0.9.0-2ubuntu4.1 for qemu and 1:28-4ubuntu2.1 for kvm. (One of
the reasons for the different versioning is to make sure it
doesn't conflict with the versioning in the development release
- otherwise you could have a 0.9.0-2ubuntu5 in gutsy-updates and
a *different* 0.9.0-2ubuntu5 in hardy).
TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-11-11: #15
And there I was thinking packaging a bug-fix was a quick thing!

So far I've spent 5 minutes creating the source-code patch and
several hours messing about with packaging!
Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote on 2007-11-14: #16
Reported also for usbview in bug #151585.
Changed in usbview:
:New → Confirmed
Daniel Hahler (blueyed) on 2007-11-14
Changed in usbview:
:New → Confirmed
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9 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
usbview: Debdi� for Hardy [incorrect] (1.7 KiB, text/plain)
usbview: Debdi� for gutsy-proposed [incorrect] (1.7 KiB, text/plain)
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2007-11-14: #22
The three gutsy-proposed patches for usbview, qemu, and kvm look
good, please go ahead and get them uploaded. Please upload them
into hardy first, though.
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-11-14
Changed in usbview:
:Unknown → New
Michael Bienia (geser) wrote on 2007-11-14: #23
Are you sure that the patch for usbview is correct? I don't have
a /dev/bus/usb/devices file here. I have only subdirs in
/dev/bus/usb.
The list that was /proc/bus/usb/devices is no longer available,

either in /dev or in /sys. The information must be gleaned in
another manner.
Changed in usbview:
:nobody → blueyed
Sorry, I've only applied the logic of the kvm patch, which
should be invalid then, too!?
Apparently I still have the "Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work"

uncommented in /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh and the "ln -s
.usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices" from there seems to create
this file.
10 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
It appears that for usbview the whole "LoadUSBTree stuff" would

have to get rewritten to use the directory/filesystem layout
instead of the the "devices" file. I'm not going to work on this
though.
Changed in usbview:
:blueyed → nobody
My test of KVM worked with the patch: I don't believe it depends

on the presence of the devices file. usbview may be different (I
have not investigated this package).
TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-11-15: #27
Emmet is, unfortunately, correct. I had forgotten to re-disable

the section in /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh too.
The devices file itself is created when a usbfs mount is

created, using:
$ mkdir .usbfs
$ sudo mount -n -t usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=
0644 usbfs .usbfs
$ ls .usbfs
001 002 003 004 005 devices
$ cat devices
$ cat .usbfs/devices
T: Bus=05 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxCh= 8

B: Alloc= 0/800 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.22-14-generic ehci_hcd
...
Unless there is some over-arching reason *not* to use usbfs then

the best solution is, I think, to amend /etc/init.
d/mountdevsubfs.sh so instead of:
#
#
#mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
#domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=
0600,listmode=0644
#ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
#mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
we have
11 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
# Magic to give virtual machines (KVM/QEMU, VirtualBox, VMWare,

etc) access to host USB devices
#
domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=
0600,listmode=0644
ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
This could be added as an additional stanza (which takes the

solution back to amending the "sysvinit" package).
The alternative is to add a complete new set of scripts and

links, either:
/etc/rc.S/S12mountdevusbfs -> /etc/init.d/mountdevusbfs.sh
or
/etc/rc2.d/S20mountdevusbfs -> /etc/init.d/mountdevusbfs.sh
That, coupled with the alteration to KVM/QEMU would solve the

issue.
Comments please?
TJ (tj) on 2007-11-15
:updated
TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-11-15: #28
Proposed /etc/init.d/mountdevusbfs.sh (1.2 KiB, text/x-sh)
Emmet. I just realised you seem to be suggest it worked with the

patch (for KVM on Hardy wasn't it?) but the patch simply
replaces /proc/bus/usb/ with /dev/bus/usb/ but there is no
'devices' file link there *unless* the uncommented magic in
/etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh (or equivalent) has created a usbfs
and linked /dev/bus/usb/devices into it.
I've tested the KVM Gutsy patch here. Without mounting the usbfs
(using my new mountdevusbfs.sh script) I get:
$ ls -a /dev/bus/usb
. .. 001 002 003 004 005
info usbhost
Could not open /dev/bus/usb/devices
But once the usbfs is mounted and the 'devices' link created, it
works:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/mountdevusbfs.sh start

$ ls -a /dev/bus/usb
. .. 001 002 003 004 005 devices .usbfs
info usbhost
12 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
Class 00: USB device 0781:5151, Cruzer Micro
Class ef: USB device 05ca:1836
Class e0: USB device 044e:300d, UGX
Is it possible the Hardy init is creating the usbfs and linking

devices, or is there some confusion here?
perpetualrabbit (perpetualrabbit) wrote on 2007-11-18: #29
I have a Trust media center keyboard with builtin trackball.

After a reboot, suddenly the trackball responded very sluggish,
like with a ball-mouse (not optical I mean) with dirty wheels
inside. But it couldn't be dirty yet, it is brand new. I noticed
earlier that usbview did not work, but used to under Gutsy. I
mounted the /proc/bus/usb filesystem, with mount -t usbfs
procbususb /proc/bus/usb and instantly the trackball is working
again. Usbview too.
Whatever the thinking is about /proc/bus/usb, the change that

was made to it broke my mouse (well trackball) and probably
breaks the X window experience for lots of Gutsy users.
Also there should be a better program than just usbview in Gnome

to work with usb devices. usbview is very limited. And ugly.
Daniel Hahler (blueyed) on 2007-12-08
:updated
Saúl Romero (spacetree) wrote on 2007-12-24: #30
Hi!
I am new to all this stuff about patching, and i want to ask you
some things. I am using ubuntu gustsy gibbon with qemu/kvm and
experiencing the described bug:
I followed this guide in order to use the debdiff file from TJ's
post (qemu -2ubuntu5 gutsy-proposed debdiff ) : https:/
/wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPackagingGuide/BuildFromDebdiff.
Until the installation of the package it all seemed ok, but if i

use qemu alone, my win VM keeps on rebooting. It also keeps on
showing the message "Could not open /proc/bus/usb/devices". Same
with KVM
13 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
What could I have missed? Any help is appreciated. I shall say

that a message telling "applying debdiff ..." when i was
downloading the source called my attention.
Brian Pitts (bpitts) wrote on 2007-12-30: #31
Reported for lsusb at Bug #159189
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2008-01-11: #32
I do not see anything to do for ubuntu-sru here. Please get the

fixes uploaded and tested in hardy, and attach tested debdiffs
for the packages you think should be fixed in gutsy. Feel free
to immediately upload clean and obvious patches like http://
launchpadlibrarian.net/10207748/kvm_28-4ubuntu3-gutsy.debdiff
without prior written approval. After that, please resubscribe
ubuntu-sru.
Thank you!
Changed in virtualbox:
:Unknown → New
Apparently that patch didn't actually work. Sorry for sitting on

this task so long. Open for all takers :)
Changed in kvm:
:persia → nobody
:Fix Released → Confirmed
Rui Bernardo (epimeteo) wrote on 2008-03-11: #34
I was trying to use QEMU with USB in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy when I
found this bug. I comment out the magic lines in /etc/init.
d/mountdevsubfs.sh, started it, but still couldn't use USB in
QEMU. Everything inside /proc/bus/usb/ and /dev/bus/usb was
owned by root and QEMU couldn't read/write in it. I searched the
web for something to change /dev/bus/usb/ and /proc/bus/usb/
permissions. QEMU docs says to "chown -R" all /proc/bus/usb/ and
this was a problem since it "doesn't exist".
I found this: http://www.ubuntu1501.com/2007/12/installing-

virtualbox-with-usb-support.html and adapted it to QEMU.
14 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
Basicaly, I added a new system group called "usbusers", added my

username to that new system group and added a line in /etc/fstab
setting the GID of /proc/bus/usb. I didn't need to change
/etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules! All the process:
# Edit, uncomment "magic" and start the file /etc/init.

d/mountdevsubfs.sh
# Create a system group for usb users:

sudo addgroup --system usbusers
# Output was GID 128
# Add user to usbusers group:

sudo adduser $USER usbusers
# With the lines in /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh comment out,

# edit /etc/fstab:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
# Add the following line:

# 128 is the GID of the group "usbusers".
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=128,devmode=664 0 0
# Reboot. After restarting the group owner of the devices were

"usbusers":
$ ls -la /proc/bus/usb/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 2008-03-11 14:45 .
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2008-03-11 14:46 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-03-11 14:45 001
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-03-11 14:45 devices
$ ls -la /proc/bus/usb/003
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-03-11 14:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 2008-03-11 14:45 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root usbusers 43 2008-03-11 14:45 001
# Eject the USB device in Gnome before using QEMU!

# Run QEMU with the option "-usb" or "-usbdevice
host:1234:5678".
This was the way I got this working 100%.
Was there really no process during Gutsy (and Hardy nearly

already) for these bugs?
Re-opening the sysvinit task:

I'm not affected by it myself, but I wonder why we cannot just
enable the magic to make it work by default, from /etc/init.
d/mountdevsubfs.sh (code commented out by default):
15 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
#
#
domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=
0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
Scott wrote:
> Support for /proc/bus/usb has been dropped because it is
racey, and permissions are difficult to set --
> compared with /dev/bus/usb which is maintained by udev and
doesn't have these issues.
It does not appear to be really frown to permission issues,

because it links to the udev controlled interface.
:Undecided → High
:none → ubuntu-8.04-beta
:Invalid → Triaged
Steve Langasek (vorlon) on 2008-03-21
:ubuntu-8.04-beta → ubuntu-8.04

2008-04-11:
Please do not reopen tasks when it has been made clear that the
removal was deliberate
:Triaged → Won't Fix

2008-04-11:
/proc/bus/usb has GONE.
It has been marked deprecated for over a year in multiple Linux

distributions, and has been removed by more than one.
Code should be changed to use /dev/bus/usb.
That's all there is to it.
16 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) on 2008-04-11
:ubuntu-8.04 → none
John Cottier (john-cottier) wrote on 2008-04-16: #38
that reminds me of something from Hitch hikers guide to the

galaxy ;-)
Trent Telfer (unnaturalhigh) wrote on 2008-05-05: #39
Curious if these proposed patch's have actually been applied to

the qemu package in the hardy repository? As to date qemu still
does not function properly.
Could not open /proc/bus/usb/devices

Could not add USB device 'host:0fca:0006
Package: qemu
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 0.9.1-1ubuntu1
J C Nash (nashjc) wrote on 2008-05-17: #40
As far as I can tell, this also affects xsane for some scanners.
I've a Canon Canoscan LiDE 60 that used to work fine in Feisty,
but now doesn't get found. Since usbview is complaining about
/proc/bus/usb/devices, I suspect the same issue. Seems like
there's been a long trail on this one. Can we expect a fix soon?
As someone who tries to promote Linux and Open Source, bugs like
this really take the rug out from under us and send folk rushing
to spend $100s with M$.
JN
Changed in qemu:
:Unknown → Fix Released
TJ (tj) on 2008-09-03
17 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
Changed in kvm:
:nobody → intuitivenipple
:Low → Medium
TJ (tj) on 2008-09-04
Changed in qemu:
:nobody → intuitivenipple
:Low → Medium
Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) on 2008-12-19
Changed in kvm:
:intuitivenipple → kirkland
:New → Won't Fix
Changed in midisport-firmware:
:New → Won't Fix
Changed in qemu:
:New → Won't Fix
Changed in usbview:
:Confirmed → Won't Fix
Changed in vmware-server:
:New → Won't Fix
Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) on 2009-02-03
Changed in usbview:
:Undecided → Medium
:Confirmed → Triaged
TJ (tj) on 2009-02-13
Changed in qemu:
:intuitivenipple → nobody
Matt Zimmerman (mdz) on 2009-02-19
Changed in kvm:
:In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in virtualbox:
:New → Fix Released
18 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2009-03-11
Changed in apcupsd:
:Undecided → High
Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2009-03-12
:Undecided → High
:Undecided → High
Changed in apcupsd (Ubuntu Jaunty):

:nobody → scott
Changed in midisport-firmware (Ubuntu Jaunty):
:nobody → scott
Changed in qemu (Ubuntu Jaunty):
:nobody → scott
Changed in usbview (Ubuntu Jaunty):
:nobody → scott

2009-03-16:
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 16:56 +0000, Max Romantschuk wrote:
> I have a Midisport 4x4 which is affected by this issue,

package
> midisport-firmware. Will happily test to verify that all is
well once a
> fix is available.
>
Which part doesn't work?
If you have the device plugged in during boot - could you

attach /var/log/udev from that boot.
Scott
--
Scott James Remnant
<email address hidden>
Max Romantschuk (max-romantschuk) wrote on 2009-03-16: #93
19 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
Scott James Remnant wrote:

> Which part doesn't work?
>
> If you have the device plugged in during boot - could you
> attach /var/log/udev from that boot.
I'm running Intrepid at the moment, should this work in Jaunty

by now? I
just ran across this bug after the earlier midisport-specific
bug was
marked as a duplicate of this one.
So do I need to upgrade to Jaunty to test?
.max

2009-03-16:
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:04 +0000, Max Romantschuk wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:

> > Which part doesn't work?
> >
> > If you have the device plugged in during boot - could you
> > attach /var/log/udev from that boot.
>
> I'm running Intrepid at the moment, should this work in Jaunty
by now? I
> just ran across this bug after the earlier midisport-specific
bug was
> marked as a duplicate of this one.
>
Logs from intrepid will be fine.
Scott
--
Scott James Remnant
<email address hidden>
Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote on 2009-03-16: #95
apcupsd works without /proc/bus/usb/devices -- documentation

error
Changed in apcupsd:
:New → Invalid
:New → Invalid
20 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
apcupsd works without /proc/bus/usb/devices --- documentation

error
Changed in apcupsd:
:New → Invalid
Colin,
I pulled the apcupsd and gapcmon sources for Gutsy, Hardy and
Intrepid, and combed over them. As you say, no references. So I
went back and re-tested without usbfs on both Hardy and Intrepid
(I no longer have Gutsy handy for testing).
To my chagrin (but not dismay :-)), it works. So you're right: I

got caught by a documentation error, and did not try running it
without first trying to meet the documented requirements,
although even there the documentation is ambiguous enough that
one can interpret it in multiple ways. In this case, RTFM might
be construed to have a slight twist on the usual meaning.
I've marked the apcupsd entries as invalid, and will open a

separate bug for the documentation.
By the way, I see that vmware-server is mentioned here. Has

anyone tried VMware Server 2 (I am downloading it now, so I can
take a look), or is this just about version 1? VMware
Workstation 6.5.x has had no problem with USB devices on any of
these versions of Ubuntu.
As promised: bug 343869
/var/log/udev with Midisport plugged in (420.8 KiB, text/plain)
As per Scott's request I'm attaching /var/log/udev from a boot

with my Midisport device plugged in.
My Intrepid system works to the extent that I do get the device

up and running by hotplugging after boot, as described in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215081

2009-03-17:
21 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
The midisport-firmware problem is that fxload uses the wrong

environment variable to get the device name
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-03-17: #102
This bug was fixed in the package fxload - 0.0.20020411-

1.1ubuntu1
---------------
fxload (0.0.20020411-1.1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low
* Use DEVNAME from the environment in preference to DEVICE,

the former
contains the modern /dev/bus/usb path. LP: #156085.
-- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Mar 2009

10:02:33 +0000
Changed in fxload:
This bug was fixed in the package midisport-firmware -

1.2+dsfg1-0ubuntu6
---------------
midisport-firmware (1.2+dsfg1-0ubuntu6) jaunty; urgency=low
* 42-midisport-firmware.rules.in: Correct rules to act on the

USB raw
device, rather than the first interface. LP: #156085.
-- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Mar 2009

10:06:10 +0000
Scott James Remnant wrote:

> The midisport-firmware problem is that fxload uses the wrong
environment
> variable to get the device name
If I understood the fxload docs correctly there is a command

line
argument to specify the device as well. Could this be used for a
work-around in the midisport-firmware package's udev rules?
22 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
I just noticed a fix was released already. I will upgrade to

Jaunty and verify that everything works for midisport-firmware.

2009-03-17:
Dustin: could you look at QEMU, it should be the same basic

patch as KVM right?

:scott → kirkland

2009-03-17:
usbview will be removed from the archive, it's functionality is

available from lsusb or gnome-device-manager

Dan Bishop (danbishop) wrote on 2009-03-17: #108
I have a midisport 2x2 which I have just tried and found not to
be working, however, I've just realised that the latest package
hasn't made it to me yet, only 0.0.20020411-1.1 and not
0.0.20020411-1.1ubuntu1. Make sure you check this before testing
the 4x4! :)
Dan Bishop (danbishop) wrote on 2009-03-17: #109
Can confirm this fix works perfectly for midisport 2x2 :D
Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) wrote on 2009-03-17: #110
I'm marking QEMU as 'fix released' as well.
The relevant patch that we were carrying for kvm has been
included in QEMU upstream, and is already present in qemu 0.10.0
in Jaunty.
:-Dustin

23 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
:In Progress → Fix Released

Changed in qemu:
Confirmation for Midisport 4x4 working as well. :)
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2009-03-20: #112
there is no vmware-server package in jaunty; marking this task

invalid.
:New → Invalid
This bug was fixed in the package madfuload - 1.2-2ubuntu2
---------------
madfuload (1.2-2ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low
* 42-madfuload.rules.in: Add -D $root/$name to madfuload calls

so we use
/dev/bus/usb paths. LP: #156085.
-- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Apr 2009

09:40:00 +0100
Changed in madfuload:
Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) wrote on 2009-05-07: #114
The 18 month support period for Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 has reached
its end of life -
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol . As a result, we are
closing the
Gutsy task.
Changed in fxload (Ubuntu Gutsy):

:New → Won't Fix
Changed in madfuload (Ubuntu Gutsy):
:New → Won't Fix
toaste (toaste) wrote on 2009-05-11: #115
24 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
A slight change to the mountdevsubfs.sh workaround is necessary

in Jaunty (9.04)
The commented out magic in mountdevsubfs.sh was removed sometime

after Hardy, probably because it didn't work anymore since
domount no longer likes "" as a parameter.
Add code below immediately after the line that reads:

domount devpts "" /dev/pts devpts -onoexec,nosuid,gid=$TTYGRP,
mode=$TTYMODE
#insert the following below the line above (line 41 for me)
#
# These following 4 lines were added to make USB devices
avabilable in vmware
#
domount usbfs none /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -o busmode=0700,devmode=
0600,listmode=0644
mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
Daniele Cruciani (daniele-smartango) wrote on 2009-05-11: #117
info in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331331
solve all my problem in Jaunty
[...]
ivan vucic (systema-hr) on 2009-09-19
Changed in qemu:
:Fix Released → Fix Committed
Changed in qemu:
:Fix Committed → Fix Released

:Scott James Remnant (scott) → nobody
Changed in usbview (Ubuntu):
:Scott James Remnant (scott) → nobody
25 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
mahogeni muse (dkeeling0419) wrote on 2009-11-16: #118
Ok, I am totally new to linux so I also am a novice when it

comes to updating patches. I downloaded Ubuntu Desktop 9 and of
course it won't recognize the USB Devices on my laptop. I have a
Toshiba Satellite A215-S5818 with Windows Vista (build 6).
Ubuntu 9 is the guest OS on VMWare Workstation 7.0 (build
203739). I've tried to mount usbfs manually using
mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb
I've tried modifying /etc/fstab by adding the following code at

the bottom:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto 0 0
The last thing I read was to modify the etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs

.sh and uncomment
mkdir -p /dev/bus/proc/usb/.usbfs
domount usbfs ""/dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=
0600,listmode=0644
ln-s .usbfs/devices/dev/bus/usb/devices
mount --rbind/dev/bus/usb/proc/bus/usb
$ sudo /etc/etc/init.d/nountdevsubfs.sh.start
However, when I went to the /etc/init.d directory there was no

mountdevsubfs.sh file so I created one and added the code above
with no luck. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be sincerely
appreciated...
Thanks!
Danny Wood (danwood76) wrote on 2009-11-16: #119
Your problem sounds more like a bug in VMware and as it is a

paid product I would ask them about it.
It sounds like VMware is not passing the USB devices on.
mahogeni muse (dkeeling0419) wrote on 2009-11-16: #120
Thanks danwood76...I'll give it a try...*sigh* back to the

drawing board....
Kip Warner (kip) wrote on 2010-04-04: #121
I contacted the developer of USBView and this is the dialogue.
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:19:43PM -0700, Kip Warner wrote:

> Hey Greg,
>
> Thanks for your great application USBView. I'd like to use it
and I am
26 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
> running Ubuntu Karmic. The problem is it looks as though they

dropped
> support for /proc/bus/usb a while ago and your app needs to be
changed
> to use /dev/bus/usb instead, as I understand it:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usbview/+bug/156085/
comments/6
>
> Is this possible?
Please contact ubuntu about this, there is nothing I can do

about it.
good luck,
greg k-h
Karri Kaksonen (karri-kaksonen) wrote on 2010-04-07: #122
/proc/usb is also needed for all users that use Aladdin HASP
technology. What affects me is nautical chart subscriptions that
require the HASP to work. These HASP keys will still be around
for the next 10 years. So I feel that there should be a work-
around for this.
The work-arounds presented in this thread do not work because

the domount command is also dropped together with all the mount-
shell scripts from the initscripts packages.
The last working system is Ubuntu 9.04
Michael (michaeljt) wrote on 2010-04-07: #123
Karri: I can see at least two ways of solving this in more

recent Ubuntus. One is virtualisation (e.g. VirtualBox with USB
virtualisation, since that no longer depends on /proc/bus/usb :)
). The other would be a preloaded libary which emulated
/proc/bus/usb while actually accessing /dev/bus/usb and sysfs.
Much like the way that OSS was emulated in user space over ALSA.
The second solution should also work for USBView by the way.
Such a library is in my opinion a correct way of dealing with

legacy devices which are lacking in current kernels (keeping the
support in the kernel after its sell-by date is rather ugly, it
seems to me) and it shouldn't be too much work to write as long
as you don't have to support polling on files, although I hasten
to add that I'm not volunteering for the job :)
27 of 29 2/16/24, 17:40
Changed in qemu (openSUSE):

:Unknown → Critical
Changed in usbview (Debian):

Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote on 2014-11-21: #124
Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving
any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't
Fix".
Changed in vmware-server (Ubuntu Hardy):

:New → Won't Fix
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) on 2014-11-21
Changed in midisport-firmware (Ubuntu Hardy):

:New → Won't Fix
Changed in fxload (Ubuntu Hardy):
:New → Won't Fix
Changed in madfuload (Ubuntu Hardy):
:New → Won't Fix
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) on 2014-11-23
Changed in kvm (Ubuntu Hardy):

Changed in qemu (Ubuntu Hardy):
Changed in usbview (Ubuntu Hardy):
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Bug #156085 reported by TJ on 2007-10-23

QEMU Fix Released Undecided Unassigned

Declined for Intrepid by Dustin Kirkland Bug #150718

fxload Bug #258768

Gutsy Won't Fix Undecided Unassigned You are not

Declined for Intrepid by Dustin Kirkland

Hardy Emmet Hikory

Declined for Intrepid by Dustin Kirkland Srećko Jurić-

Hardy Tom Scholl

Declined for Intrepid by Dustin Kirkland BlacKnight

Gutsy Won't Fix Undecided Unassigned Chun-Hung Chen

Jaunty Invalid High Cristian

TJ (tj) on 2007-10-23 QiangGuan

mount --bind /sys/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb Tom

begin ../../../devices Unfortunately, in the /proc/bus/usb tree Ubuntu Server

There is a work-around that re-enables /proc/bus/usb/devices: chen

There's a related bug report for VirtualBox with a comment by qadir

Bug #151585 "USB Devices unrecognised by virtualbox (/proc qemu-devel-ml

qemu -2ubuntu5 hardy debdi� (1.4 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in qemu: debbugs #451191

Screenshot of qemuctl displaying USB devices (846x708) (294.7 KiB,

(qemu) show usbhost

Class e0: USB device 044e:300d, UGX

Device 2.8, speed 480 Mb/s

Hub: USB device 04cc:1521

Device 2.13, speed 480 Mb/s

Class 00: USB device 07ab:fcc7, Freecom Mobile Drive

Device 2.9, speed 480 Mb/s

Hub: USB device 05e3:0606, USB2.0 Hub

Device 2.12, speed 480 Mb/s

Class 00: USB device 058f:6362, Mass Storage Device

Device 2.11, speed 480 Mb/s

Class 00: USB device 05ac:120a, iPod

Device 2.10, speed 12 Mb/s

Class 00: USB device 054c:002c, USB Floppy Drive

Device 2.3, speed 480 Mb/s

Class ef: USB device 05ca:1836

Emmet Hikory (persia) on 2007-11-08

Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote on 2007-11-08: #12

KVM Uploaded to hardy. Thanks. Waiting on patch refresh for

Emmet Hikory (persia) on 2007-11-08

TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-11-08: #13

Rebased qemu -1ubuntu2 Hardy debdi� (3.6 KiB, text/plain)

Chris Halse Rogers (raof) on 2007-11-11

Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote on 2007-11-11: #14

We'd really prefer your original one-line patch to the new

TJ (tj) wrote on 2007-11-11: #15

And there I was thinking packaging a bug-fix was a quick thing!

Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote on 2007-11-14: #16

Reported also for usbview in bug #151585.

Daniel Hahler (blueyed) on 2007-11-14

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote on 2007-11-14: #20

usbview: Debdi� for Hardy [incorrect] (1.7 KiB, text/plain)

Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote on 2007-11-14: #21

usbview: Debdi� for gutsy-proposed [incorrect] (1.7 KiB, text/plain)

Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2007-11-14: #22

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-11-14

Michael Bienia (geser) wrote on 2007-11-14: #23

Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote on 2007-11-14: #24

Unless there is some over-arching reason not to use usbfs then