libusb stopped working?

[Reid Priedhorsky <reid@reidster.net>]

Hi folks,

Yesterday, 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 -- 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

Ideas? Should I file a bug? If so, on which package? libusb seems a likely
candidate, but I haven't changed that package since October.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Reid