[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#550372: virtualbox-3.0: USB does not work without /proc/bus/usb

[Markus Rechberger]

2009/10/9 Mikołaj Menke <miki at menek.one.pl>:
> Dnia 10.10.2009 00:47 użytkownik Markus Rechberger napisał :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2009/10/10 Martin Michlmayr <tbm at cyrius.com>:
>>>
>>> * Mikołaj Menke <miki at menek.one.pl> [2009-10-09 23:56]:
>>>>>
>>>>> What does
>>>>>   dpkg -p virtualbox-3.0 | grep Maintainer:
>>>>> say?  Because I cannot see this package in Debian.
>>>>
>>>> Maintainer: Sun Microsystems, Inc. <info at virtualbox.org>
>>>
>>> Oh well, then you know who to talk to.
>>>
>>> There's a virtualbox-ose 3.0.6-dfsg-1 package in Debian testing.  Can
>>> you try that?
>>
>> when reporting this virtualbox should really look up the usbids
>> through /dev/bus/usb nowadays. /proc/bus/usb is fading away
>
> Seems like it is not looking up through /dev/bus/usb. When I umount
> /proc/bus/usb nothing changes and USB still does not work.
>

yes this can very easily be the case. usbview has the same problem
it's also still
looking in /proc/bus/usb (but note it has been depreciated to use this path).
I think it was default with 2.6.18 (a very long time ago) but it
changed to /dev/bus/usb

Markus