No USB fucnctionality after emerging hotplug-20040920. /proc/bus/usb was empty. My mouse didn't work Went back the the earlier April hotplug and everything is fine again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge hotplug Actual Results: USB dead Expected Results: USB shoudl work ;-) root@flash /usr/src/linux # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r2 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://www.zentek-international.com/mirrors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr encode esd fluidsynth foomaticdb gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib jack jack-tmpfs java jpeg ladcca libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozcalendar mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype usb video_cards_radeon x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
perhaps you need coldplug?
Yes, please emerge coldplug if you really don't want to add your usb host controller drivers to the modules.autoload file.
What's coldplug???????? Guys - hotplug was updated as one of maybe 20 items. If there were messages (I saw none) they were long gone before the emerge was complete. You need to fix this before it goes stable. Not acceptable to jsut break people's machines and then tell them after the fact they should have done something new.
I'm forced to agree. What was the rationale of separating module preloading from hotplug? Without it I don't get network. With it, the network comes up very strangely, as I don't see the net.* scripts actually being executed. Do the hotplug *.rc scripts now magically handle that?
coldplug is what you want to have happen (load modules for devices already found by your kernel.) It was renamed, as "hotplug" is just the wrong term for it, and it has caused numerous support issues, and confusion among users. There's a reason that all the other distros do it this way, and I've learned my lesson :) So, please emerge the coldplug package. If this doesn't work for you for whatever reason, please create a new bug stating what is broken now.
OK - I'll give it a try, but I had hotplug and my machine worked. Now there's a new hotplug and a new coldplug. Do I need both? If both are required to get the same functionality of the older April version of hotplug, then please consider changing something (ebuild, virtuals, ???) to ensure that when hotplug-20040920 goes stable you don't end up with 1000 people having the same problem. why not just emerge both hotplug and coldplug if people had the old hotplug? OK - back from trying it. I emerged hotplug-20040920 and coldplug-20040920 over the top of my older hotplug. USB is still broken. Granted, I've not read any documentation, but now I can't since my mouse is broken! Back to older hotplug. Shall I file a different bug?
OK - Sorry. I missed that coldplug is a rc-update application and needs to be started. Once started I got USB back again. So, this is better and I apologize for not seeing that earlier. Still, and I freely admit I'm a dummy, I think this will cause problems for other dummies like me. Give some thought to how this change can be made more transparent - like if people have the older hotplug and are starting it at a certain runlevel, then when coldplug is installed go ahead and set it up to get started at the same time. Just an idea. Again, sorry. It is working.
