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Re: [gpsd-dev] Another release seems called for


From: Fulup Le Foll
Subject: Re: [gpsd-dev] Another release seems called for
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:22:47 +0200
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Jeroen

If you plug/unplug an active USB device on Linux. Usually the device change name and move for example from ttyUSB0 to ttyUSB1. I commented this Linux feature long time ago on http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/gpsd-users/2009-June/003785.html

Might also be useful to highlight that by default last versions of Ubuntu does not grant "dialout" group to basic users, when acces to /dev/tty* require access to "dialout" group.

Fulup


Le 23/07/2013 19:42, Jeroen Massar a écrit :
On 2013-07-23 19:37 , Gary E. Miller wrote:
Yo Eric!

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:24:01 -0400 (EDT)
address@hidden  (Eric S. Raymond) wrote:

I'd like to ship a bugfix release next week.
Maybe another bug to look at before a release:

If I unplug a USB GPS, then plug it back in, then gpsd can no longer
access the device:

gpsd:INFO: reconnection attempt on device 0
gpsd:INFO: opening GPS data source type 3 at '/dev/ttyUSB0'
gpsd:ERROR: device open failed: Permission denied - retrying read-only
gpsd:ERROR: read-only device open failed: Permission denied
gpsd:ERROR: /dev/ttyUSB0: device activation failed.

I assume because priviledges dropped.
Depending on platform, if on Linux you can teach udev to set the
permissions so that gpsd can access it.

Greets,
  Jeroen




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