I've just committed this: commit 2b826a316954eec9951b9bf98b853560cfd70828 Author: Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> Date: Tue May 18 09:37:17 2010 +0100 Port UPower to libusb1 to avoid crappy unfixable crashes I would appreciate some testing, especially if you get semi-random crashes and the backtrace points squarely at libusb. Thanks. Richard.