Your message dated Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:36:55 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#802251: usbview: does not run on modern Debian system
has caused the Debian Bug report #802251,
regarding usbview: does not run on modern Debian system
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Package: usbview
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable
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Upon running usbview, it looks for a usbdevfs devices file in
/sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices. When this is, of course, not found, a window
is presented, asking for the correct location of the non-existend usbdevfs
devices file.
Leaving out that usbdevfs has been usbfs for probably 10 years now, and that
there is no devices 'file' related to USB at all in the /sys dir tree, if
one tries to change the "Location of usbdevfs devices file" to something
that exists, like anything in /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbfs/*, then the
application hangs until killed.
It does not work as shipped, and the only action that usbview can complete
successfully is to hang.
usbview should be removed from testing/stretch: it is completely
disfunctional. It's last documentation update was in 2002.
usbview is also unable to be built from source: it's config script dies when
testing for c++ as the config file is incorrect.... but that's another bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
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On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 09:49:20PM +0300, Stephen McGregor wrote:
> Upon running usbview, it looks for a usbdevfs devices file in
> /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices. When this is, of course, not found, a window
> is presented, asking for the correct location of the non-existend usbdevfs
> devices file.
Works for me with v4.2, the file is still provided by the kernel. The
issue you are most likely seeing is that by default debugfs is not
readable by users for security reasons so can't be read, if you
configure your system to allow access to it then it can be parsed just
fine.
Ideally the program would use libusb but it can still function.
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