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    <font face="Verdana">Well thinking that it was some left over src
      code I purged the build environment and rebuilt using 1) the
      latest from SVN and then 2) with you latest patch.  Neither seemed
      to make a difference.  </font>I will see if I can tweak it some
    more tomorrow and let you know but I suspect the negations are
    causing the problem,especially since I can put them back and all is
    happy again.  Seems something else is looking for these removed
    snippets somewhere and are not at all happy that they are missing.<br>
    <br>
    Oh happy days, right :-)<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    On 03/23/2011 04:58 PM, Michael Thayer wrote:
    <blockquote
      cite="mid:1300917519.2461.15.camel@michael-latitude-e6410"
      type="cite">
      <pre wrap="">On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:52 -0500, Perry Halbert wrote:
</pre>
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        <pre wrap="">Sorry that doesn't get it either.
I read that link a few days ago but remember I had no problems until
the 
changes in 36350 today.
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      </blockquote>
      <pre wrap="">I take it it builds correctly for you this time though.  Did you check
whether the device nodes are correctly created under /dev/vboxusb when
you plug in devices?  And you might also check which of the two entries
which I removed from that structure was the important one.  I presume it
was
{ "/dev/bus/usb",  true }

Regards,

Michael

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        <pre wrap="">On 03/23/2011 04:34 PM, Michael Thayer wrote:
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        <blockquote type="cite">
          <pre wrap="">On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:15 -0500, Perry Halbert wrote:
</pre>
          <blockquote type="cite">
            <pre wrap="">Well going back to the present build does not work.  Node is not
created
and and the error returns.
I added the changes that you show in previous reply and get an
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          </blockquote>
        </blockquote>
        <pre wrap="">error
</pre>
        <blockquote type="cite">
          <blockquote type="cite">
            <pre wrap="">shown below
</pre>
          </blockquote>
          <pre wrap="">Sorry about that!  Here is the correct patch.

By the way, see also [ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8502">http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8502</a> ].

Regards,

Michael

Index: src/VBox/Main/src-server/linux/USBGetDevices.cpp
===================================================================
--- src/VBox/Main/src-server/linux/USBGetDevices.cpp  (revision
</pre>
        </blockquote>
        <pre wrap="">70699)
</pre>
        <blockquote type="cite">
          <pre wrap="">+++ src/VBox/Main/src-server/linux/USBGetDevices.cpp  (working copy)
@@ -1442,17 +1442,7 @@
              if (   fHaveInotify
                  &&  !pcBestSysfs
                  &&
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        <pre wrap="">RTPathExists(s_aTreeLocations[i].szDevicesRoot))
</pre>
        <blockquote type="cite">
          <pre wrap="">-            {
-                PUSBDEVICE pDevices;
-
-                pDevices =
</pre>
        </blockquote>
        <pre wrap="">getDevicesFromSysfs(s_aTreeLocations[i].szDevicesRoot,
</pre>
        <blockquote type="cite">
          <pre wrap="">-                                               true);
-                if (pDevices)
-                {
-                    pcBestSysfs =&s_aTreeLocations[i];
-                    deviceListFree(&pDevices);
-                }
-            }
+                pcBestSysfs =&s_aTreeLocations[i];
          }
      if (pcBestUsbfs&&  !fPreferSysfs)
          return pcBestUsbfs;



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          <blockquote type="cite">
            <pre wrap="">Reverting and nodes do show up in /dev/vboxusb

This works
static const USBDEVTREELOCATION s_aTreeLocations[] =
{
      { "/proc/bus/usb", false },
      { "/dev/bus/usb",  false },
      { "/dev/vboxusb",  true },
      { "/dev/bus/usb",  true },
};

This does not work
static const USBDEVTREELOCATION s_aTreeLocations[] =
{
      { "/dev/vboxusb",  true },
      { "/proc/bus/usb", false },
};


On 03/23/2011 03:30 PM, Michael Thayer wrote:
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              <pre wrap="">On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 15:17 -0500, Perry Halbert wrote:
</pre>
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                <pre wrap="">By additions this time I was talking about the additional changes
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            </blockquote>
            <pre wrap="">to
</pre>
            <blockquote type="cite">
              <blockquote type="cite">
                <pre wrap="">the
file.

Give me a bit and I will see what happens.  Takes about 10
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              </blockquote>
            </blockquote>
          </blockquote>
        </blockquote>
        <pre wrap="">minutes
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          <blockquote type="cite">
            <pre wrap="">to
</pre>
            <blockquote type="cite">
              <blockquote type="cite">
                <pre wrap="">get back to a clean build.
</pre>
              </blockquote>
              <pre wrap="">If that makes a difference you might try with the following patch.

Regards,

Michael

Index: src/VBox/Main/src-server/linux/USBGetDevices.cpp

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        <pre wrap="">===================================================================
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        <blockquote type="cite">
          <blockquote type="cite">
            <blockquote type="cite">
              <pre wrap="">--- src/VBox/Main/src-server/linux/USBGetDevices.cpp  (revision
</pre>
            </blockquote>
            <pre wrap="">70699)
</pre>
            <blockquote type="cite">
              <pre wrap="">+++ src/VBox/Main/src-server/linux/USBGetDevices.cpp  (working
</pre>
            </blockquote>
          </blockquote>
        </blockquote>
        <pre wrap="">copy)
</pre>
        <blockquote type="cite">
          <blockquote type="cite">
            <blockquote type="cite">
              <pre wrap="">@@ -1443,15 +1443,8 @@
                   &&   !pcBestSysfs
                   &&
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            </blockquote>
            <pre wrap="">RTPathExists(s_aTreeLocations[i].szDevicesRoot))
</pre>
            <blockquote type="cite">
              <pre wrap="">               {
-                PUSBDEVICE pDevices;
-
-                pDevices =
</pre>
            </blockquote>
            <pre wrap="">getDevicesFromSysfs(s_aTreeLocations[i].szDevicesRoot,
</pre>
            <blockquote type="cite">
              <pre wrap="">-                                               true);
-                if (pDevices)
-                {
-                    pcBestSysfs =&s_aTreeLocations[i];
-                    deviceListFree(&pDevices);
-                }
+                pcBestSysfs =&s_aTreeLocations[i];
+                deviceListFree(&pDevices);
               }
           }
       if (pcBestUsbfs&&   !fPreferSysfs)


</pre>
              <blockquote type="cite">
                <pre wrap="">On 03/23/2011 03:14 PM, Michael Thayer wrote:
</pre>
                <blockquote type="cite">
                  <pre wrap="">On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 15:06 -0500, Perry Halbert wrote:
</pre>
                  <blockquote type="cite">
                    <pre wrap="">Yes it had the directory.  I don't know if it actually created
</pre>
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          </blockquote>
        </blockquote>
        <pre wrap="">it
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          <blockquote type="cite">
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                <pre wrap="">but
</pre>
                <blockquote type="cite">
                  <blockquote type="cite">
                    <pre wrap="">when investigating it was there.

I can rebuild with the additions if you want for me to look for
anything
specific.
</pre>
                  </blockquote>
                  <pre wrap="">The Additions shouldn't play any part here.  I will give you
</pre>
                </blockquote>
              </blockquote>
            </blockquote>
            <pre wrap="">another
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              <blockquote type="cite">
                <blockquote type="cite">
                  <pre wrap="">test though - try stopping all VirtualBox processes, plugging in
</pre>
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        </blockquote>
        <pre wrap="">a
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          <blockquote type="cite">
            <blockquote type="cite">
              <blockquote type="cite">
                <pre wrap="">USB
</pre>
                <blockquote type="cite">
                  <pre wrap="">device (a node should be created in /dev/vboxusb for it) and
</pre>
                </blockquote>
                <pre wrap="">restarting
</pre>
                <blockquote type="cite">
                  <pre wrap="">VirtualBox.

Regards,

Michael

</pre>
                  <blockquote type="cite">
                    <pre wrap="">On 03/23/2011 02:58 PM, Michael Thayer wrote:
</pre>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <pre wrap="">Hello Perry,

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 14:52 -0500, Perry Halbert wrote:
</pre>
                      <blockquote type="cite">
                        <pre wrap="">Changeset 36350 breaks the USB subset
trunk/src/VBox/Main/src-server/linux/USBGetDevices.cpp
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            <pre wrap="">(modified)
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                  <blockquote type="cite">
                    <pre wrap="">(1 diff)
</pre>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <blockquote type="cite">
                        <pre wrap="">Host Ubuntu 10.10 x86_32
Removing the change fixes it.
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                      </blockquote>
                      <pre wrap="">Does the directory /dev/vboxusb exist on your system?  Does
</pre>
                    </blockquote>
                  </blockquote>
                </blockquote>
                <pre wrap="">creating
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                  <blockquote type="cite">
                    <pre wrap="">it
</pre>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <pre wrap="">make a difference if not?

Regards,

Michael 
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