Bug#412149: general: "usb:" stopped working in both gpsbabel and jpilot

[Reid Priedhorsky <reid@reidster.net>]

Package: general
Severity: normal


A few days ago, jpilot stopped syncing my USB PalmPilot. I had been using
libusb (i.e. "usb:" as the port). A reboot and a different cable didn't help,
but un-blacklisting the visor module and changing the port to /dev/pilot --
i.e. using the kernel visor module instead of libusb, reversing the procedure
suggested in #399878 -- and now sycning works fine.

Similarly, gpsbabel, which also uses libusb, no longer speaks to my GPS unit:

  4 [~]$ gpsbabel -r -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F /tmp/foo
  usb_set_configuration failed, probably because kernel driver ''
   is blocking our access to the USB device.
  For more information see http://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html

dmesg output for both the pilot and the GPS are along the lines of:

  ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: wakeup
  usb 1-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 11
  usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
  usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 11

Also, the GPS works fine in mass storage mode -- again, no libusb.

The following are the packages I upgraded between working and non-working USB:

2007-02-20 21:36:24 status installed dhcp3-common 3.0.4-13
2007-02-20 21:36:29 status installed dhcp3-server 3.0.4-13
2007-02-20 21:36:29 status installed module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-1
2007-02-20 21:36:38 status installed linux-sound-base 1.0.13-4
2007-02-20 21:36:39 status installed alsa-base 1.0.13-4
2007-02-20 21:36:47 status installed libexpat1 1.95.8-3.4
2007-02-20 21:36:47 status installed libexpat1-dev 1.95.8-3.4
2007-02-20 21:36:47 status installed apache2-utils 2.2.3-3.3
2007-02-20 21:36:47 status installed busybox 1:1.1.3-4
2007-02-20 21:36:47 status installed libklibc 1.4.34-1
2007-02-20 21:36:47 status installed klibc-utils 1.4.34-1
2007-02-20 21:36:47 status installed libgphoto2-port0 2.2.1-16
2007-02-20 21:36:50 status installed libgphoto2-2 2.2.1-16
2007-02-20 21:36:51 status installed libpango1.0-common 1.14.8-5
2007-02-20 21:36:51 status installed libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5
2007-02-20 21:36:51 status installed libpango1.0-dev 1.14.8-5
2007-02-20 21:36:51 status installed libscrollkeeper0 0.3.14-13
2007-02-20 21:36:52 status installed openoffice.org-common 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5
2007-02-20 21:37:04 status installed ttf-opensymbol 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5
2007-02-20 21:37:04 status installed openoffice.org-core 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5
2007-02-20 21:37:07 status installed python-uno 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5
2007-02-20 21:37:07 status installed openoffice.org-writer 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5
2007-02-20 21:37:07 status installed openoffice.org-draw 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5
2007-02-20 21:37:07 status installed openoffice.org-gtk 2.0.4.dfsg.2-5
2007-02-20 21:37:09 status installed scrollkeeper 0.3.14-13
2007-02-20 21:37:09 status installed ttf-dejavu 2.14-2
2007-02-20 21:37:10 status installed ttf-freefont 20060501cvs-10
2007-02-20 21:37:11 status installed update-inetd 4.27-0.3
2007-02-20 21:37:19 status installed x-ttcidfont-conf 25.1

I'm not sure for which package this bug report is appropriate. libusb seems a
likely candidate, but I haven't upgraded that package since October and
haven't touched the configuration in a while.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know what further
information would be useful.

Thanks,

Reid


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)