usbview: Can not open /proc/bus/usb/devices

[Derek Broughton]

Brad Sims wrote:

> Package: usbview
> Version: 1.0-11
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> I am using the ubuntu kernel for Intrepid and it doesn't work... there
> is no /proc/bus/usb/devices file, and from reading previous bugs against
> this package there is no one who cares that this package doesn't
> actually work.

I don't think that's quite right - but there's no one who wants to 
reintroduce /proc/bus/usb/devices to support applications using obsolete 
methods.  It's not the only one, however, as the VirtualBox non-ose version 
needs it too.

fwiw, you need this in /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh (googling "usb 
virtualbox ubuntu" should bring up lots of examples).

        #
        # Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work
        #
        [ -d /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs ] || mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
        domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0666
        ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
        mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb