[Spice-devel] USB-redirection

Sun Oct 14 04:10:07 PDT 2012

Hello all,

I finally found the problem:

There was an udevd "left over" from the initrd that wasn't being
killed by "killall -w udevd".

Again, thanks to all for the help and patience.

Regards,
TF

2012/10/12 David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com>:
> Trebor Forban píše v Pá 12. 10. 2012 v 16:16 +0200:
>> Hello,
>>
>> can anyone give me a clue where to start looking?
>>
>> Could this be caused by libs that are in the "normal" system, but not
>> in the minimal system?
>>
>> Could it be caused by missing services/daemons?
>
> wild guess: I'd start with checks for *kit daemons or per-user systemd.
> IIRC they're used for permission management when using usbredir.
>
> David
>
>>
>> I really don't know how to go about debugging this.
>>
>> Regards,
>> TF
>>
>>
>> 2012/10/11 Trebor Forban <trebor.forban at gmail.com>:
>> > Hello David,
>> >
>> > with my "normal" ubuntu-12.04 started under an openbox-xsession
>> > usb-redirection is working correctly.
>> > Looking at the ps output I can see a plethora of services running,
>> > that are not in my debootstrapped environment. Any Ideas what services
>> > might be necessary to get usb-redirection working correctly?
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > TF
>> >
>> > 2012/10/11 David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com>:
>> >> Trebor Forban píše v Čt 11. 10. 2012 v 14:14 +0200:
>> >>> Hello all,
>> >>>
>> >>> I guess I'm still at a loss. I still have the problem that usb device
>> >>> are showing up twice.
>> >>>
>> >>> I've built the following debs:
>> >>>
>> >>> swos-celt_0.5.1.3-1_amd64.deb
>> >>> swos-libusbx_20121010151121-1_amd64.deb
>> >>> swos-qemu_1.2.0-1_amd64.deb
>> >>> swos-slirp_20121010151121-1_amd64.deb
>> >>> swos-spice_0.12.0-1_amd64.deb
>> >>> swos-spice-gtk_0.14-1_amd64.deb
>> >>> swos-spice-protocol_0.12.2-1_amd64.deb
>> >>> swos-usbredir_0.4.4-1_amd64.deb
>> >>> swos-virt-viewer_0.5.4-1_amd64.deb
>> >>>
>> >>> as such:
>> >>>
>> >>> #! /bin/bash
>> >>> SCRIPT=$(basename $0)
>> >>> PRGDIR=$(cd -P $(dirname $0) && pwd -P)
>> >>> SRC_ROOT=${PRGDIR}/SWOSTMP/swos-virt-viewer
>> >>> STAMP=$(/bin/date +'%Y%m%d%H%M%S')
>> >>> rm /tmp/${SCRIPT}.log
>> >>> exec >> /tmp/${SCRIPT}.log 2>&1
>> >>>
>> >>> echo $STAMP
>> >>> rm -fr ${SRC_ROOT}
>> >>> [ -d $SRC_ROOT ] || mkdir -p $SRC_ROOT
>> >>>
>> >>> apt-get update
>> >>>
>> >>> apt-get -qq --force-yes --no-install-recommends install \
>> >>> bridge-utils build-essential checkinstall git intltool
>> >>> python-pyparsing usbutils wget \
>> >>> libacl1-dev \
>> >>> libaio-dev \
>> >>> libasound2-dev \
>> >>> libdbus-glib-1-dev \
>> >>> libgtk-3-dev \
>> >>> libgudev-1.0-dev \
>> >>> libjpeg-turbo8-dev \
>> >>> libnss3-dev \
>> >>> libogg-dev \
>> >>> libpixman-1-dev \
>> >>> libpolkit-gobject-1-dev \
>> >>> libpulse-dev \
>> >>> libssl-dev libsasl2-dev \
>> >>> libvdeplug2-dev \
>> >>> libxml2-dev
>> >>>
>> >>> INST_ROOT=/usr/local
>> >>> [ -d $INST_ROOT ] || mkdir -p $INST_ROOT
>> >>>
>> >>> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$INST_ROOT/lib/pkgconfig:$INST_ROOT/share/pkgconfig
>> >>>
>> >>> cd $SRC_ROOT
>> >>> git clone git://libusbx.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libusbx/libusbx
>> >>> mv libusbx swos-libusbx-$STAMP
>> >>> cd swos-libusbx-$STAMP
>> >>> ./autogen.sh --prefix=${INST_ROOT}
>> >>> make && make install && ldconfig
>> >>> checkinstall --install=no --pkgname 'swos-libusbx' --pkgversion
>> >>> "$STAMP" -D --pkgrelease '1' --maintainer 'swosadmin' --pakdir ../debs
>> >>> --fstrans=no --showinstall=no --autodoinst=no --strip=yes
>> >>> --stripso=yes --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --nodoc -y
>> >>>
>> >>> cd $SRC_ROOT
>> >>> wget -c http://spice-space.org/download/usbredir/usbredir-0.4.4.tar.bz2
>> >>> tar xf usbredir-0.4.4.tar.bz2 && mv usbredir-0.4.4 swos-usbredir-0.4.4
>> >>> cd swos-usbredir-0.4.4
>> >>> ./configure --prefix=${INST_ROOT}
>> >>> make -j2 && make install && ldconfig
>> >>> checkinstall --install=no --pkgname 'swos-usbredir' --pkgversion
>> >>> '0.4.4' -D --pkgrelease '1' --maintainer 'swosadmin' --pakdir ../debs
>> >>> --fstrans=no --showinstall=no --autodoinst=no --strip=yes
>> >>> --stripso=yes --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --nodoc -y
>> >>> ...
>> >>> ...
>> >>>
>> >>> in a minimal "debootstrapped" ubuntu 12.04 base system.
>> >>>
>> >>> Now the symptoms:
>> >>>
>> >>> If I install the built debs in a "normal" ubuntu-12.04 host-system all
>> >>> is well, that is, usb-redirection works as expected.
>> >>> I'm using a win7 guest with a patched (fixed a race condition causing
>> >>> boot failure when only using 1-cpu) version of
>> >>> "spice-guest-tools-0.1".
>> >>>
>> >>> If I use the same debs in my minimal debootstrapped base system,
>> >>> hotplugged (usb-devices that are already plugged in before starting
>> >>> remote-viewer only show-up once in the gui)  usb-devices are shown
>> >>> twice in the remote-viewer client-gui, and I get the
>> >>>
>> >>> "Could not auto-redirect ... at ...: Cannot connect an already
>> >>> connected usb device"
>> >>>
>> >>> error.
>> >>>
>> >>> The usb mass-storage works without errors in the win7 guest.
>> >>>
>> >>> the debootstrapped system is using an openbox-session and no auto-mounting.
>> >>
>> >> Hi Trebor,
>> >>
>> >> Could you try openbox on your "normal" system?
>> >>
>> >> the result could point to the source of the problems you're
>> >> experiencing.
>> >>
>> >> David
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> What Information can I provide to help debug this problem?
>> >>>
>> >>> remote-viewer --spice-debug
>> >>> -device usb-redir,chardev=usbredirchardev1,id=usbredirdev1,debug=3
>> >>> strace, valgrind?
>> >>>
>> >>> Unfortunately I'm not at all experienced with debugging...
>> >>>
>> >>> Best regards,
>> >>> TF
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> 2012/9/16 Trebor Forban <trebor.forban at gmail.com>:
>> >>> > Hello Hans,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > sorry for the late response, and sorry for the noise. The error was self-made
>> >>> > (conflicting builds/installs of gtk-spice with and without polkit support).
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Regards,
>> >>> > TF
>> >>> >
>> >>> > 2012/9/5 Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>:
>> >>> >> Hi,
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> On 09/04/2012 09:42 PM, Trebor Forban wrote:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Hello spice developers,
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> can someone help me debug the following error message, which is
>> >>> >>> displayed after inserting an usb-device although all seems to work:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> "Could not auto-redirect ... at ...: Cannot connect an already
>> >>> >>> connected usb device"
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Hmm, that is strange, that means that the hotplug code sees a device
>> >>> >> show up which is already there...
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Questions:
>> >>> >> 1) With which platform/os is this (on both the host and client side)
>> >>> >> 2) If the client is Linux, and you can reproduce the error
>> >>> >>    can you do an lsusb on the client, after the error please.
>> >>> >> 3) Does the device work inside the guest after this, despite the error?
>> >>> >> 4) What versions of qemu / spice-server / spice-gtk are you using ?
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Regards,
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Hans
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