On 10/3/05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 03 Oct 2005, Sayantan Sur wrote: > > As soon as I plug the camera in, for a brief period it is reported by > > `lsusb' (from usbutils package). But after a few seconds, the device > > dissappears from lsusb!! However, it is always to be found in > > /proc/bus/usb/devices. > > Try lsusb as root. If it shows up, it is just braindamage happening, with a > race condition on USB plugin just to make sure you know that whomever is > responsible for it really needs to get his act together. > > Track down whatever is screwing up with /proc/bus/usb permissions and you > will have the culprit.
Thanks a lot! This worked. There is definitely brain damage happening ;-) Apparently, if I run lsusb as root, everything is just fine. However, as Tom else pointed out on the list, it is not accessible as a Mass Storage Device. Now, if I use gphoto2 as root, then everything is just hunky-dory. > > > Oct 3 21:50:40 localhost usb.agent[7405]: libgphoto2: loaded > > successfully > > Ah. This means hotplug is probably the one to blame for the race condition. > Looks like it. Can you tell me what should I do to accurately describe (collect info) the race condition to the developers of gphoto2/usb drivers? Thanks, Sayantan. > -- > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~surs
