/proc/bus/usb not mounted (fix)

First. I'm not on this list. I looked long and hard to find a place to report bugs in hotplugging and this was the only address I could find.

My problem was that /proc/bus/usb wasn't being mounted. I examined the scripts and identified the problem in /etc/hotplug/usb.rc. The following code appears:

if [ ! -f /proc/bus/usb/devices ]; then
if grep -q "[ ]/proc/bus/usb[ ]" /etc/fstab ; then
mount /proc/bus/usb
else
mount -t usbdevfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb
fi
fi

I had a COMMENTED OUT entry for /proc/bus/usb in my /etc/fstab which caused the erronous selection of "mount /proc/bus/usb" as the command to mount. Perhaps something like

if grep -q "^[^#]*[ ]/proc/bus/usb[ ]" /etc/fstab ; then

would fix it, but I didn't think long and hard about this or test it (I just changed my fstab once I knew what was going on).

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I think

grep -q "^[^#]*.*[:space:]*/proc/bus/usb[:space:]*" /etc/fstab

would be even better... does anyone know how much [:space:] is portable?

Gioele Barabucci (Gb])
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