Bug 285101 - USB printer port with wrong ownership/permissions
Summary: USB printer port with wrong ownership/permissions
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hal
Version: 9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-09-10 21:01 UTC by Horst H. von Brand
Modified: 2008-06-16 14:28 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: hal-0.5.11-1.fc10.x86_64
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Last Closed: 2008-06-16 14:28:13 UTC
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2007-09-10 21:01:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
Booting Linux, I can't use the USB printer. The problem is that
/proc/bus/usb/???/??? belongs to root:root, and no group write.

It should be group lp, rw for group. After fixing this, cups has to be restarted.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.23-0.164.rc5.fc8

How reproducible:
Always

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Additional info:
Has happened for several kernels
Comment 1 Pete Zaitcev 2007-09-10 22:12:19 UTC 
Don't look at me, it has nothing to look with the kernel. Some time ago
(like, about a month) and update was pushed out which completely broke
this kind of ownership arrangement. Now there's not a single file owned
by a user other than root in the whole /dev. As a result, sound does not
work on my laptop. I'm pretty sure it's the same thing with you.
Comment 2 Pete Zaitcev 2007-09-10 22:24:46 UTC 
On second thought maybe I was wrong, because printer is not owned by the
console user. Please see bug 259141.
Comment 3 Horst H. von Brand 2008-01-09 19:56:17 UTC 
This used to work for a while, now (kernel-2.6.24-0.138.rc7.fc9,
cups-1.3.5-1.fc9, hplip-2.7.10-3.fc9) it is again broken.

Note that the affected files (/dev/bus/usb/???/???) are certainly auto-generated
by the kernel + udev.
Comment 4 Pete Zaitcev 2008-01-09 21:49:26 UTC 
I'm throwing this bug over to udev, or it will never get any attention.
Like I said, kernel does not know anything about permissions of device
files (it only sets default permissions for /sys but not device nodes).
Comment 5 Harald Hoyer 2008-01-10 11:31:28 UTC 
should be fixed with udev-118

also note that you have to look at the ACLs for the device nodes. PolicyKit/HAL
sets ACLs for the console user.

# getfacl /dev/bus/usb/*/*
Comment 6 Horst H. von Brand 2008-01-10 17:25:38 UTC 
Yep, fixed by udev-118-1.fc9 here.

Note that "console user" is a non-issue here, the machine has no such user most
of the time. It shows no special ACLs in any case (just root logged in via tty).
Comment 7 Horst H. von Brand 2008-03-27 00:14:41 UTC 
Broken again with udev-118-11.fc9.x86_64. Same sympthoms as before, the relevant
daemons are running now.
Comment 8 Harald Hoyer 2008-03-27 01:41:04 UTC 
the facls should be set by HAL
Comment 9 Horst H. von Brand 2008-03-27 23:07:21 UTC 
avahi-daemon, haldaemon, messagebus are all running.

Is there some logfile?
Comment 10 Horst H. von Brand 2008-03-30 22:51:59 UTC 
Currently hal-0.5.11-0.2.rc2.fc9.i386, installed 20080322
Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 03:13:12 UTC 
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 12 Horst H. von Brand 2008-06-01 23:22:10 UTC 
hal-0.5.11-1.fc10.x86_64, and it has been working fine for a while now.

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