Please backport usb-modeswitch 2.2.5+repack0-1ubuntu1 (main) from wily

[Marius B. Kotsbak]

Please backport usb-modeswitch 2.2.5+repack0-1ubuntu1 (main) from wily to trusty (and vivid, if possible).

Reason for the backport:
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To support newer modems in 14.04 LTS release. Here is an indication that it could help:

http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/bb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2161

See also bug #1407431.

usb-modeswitch (2.2.5+repack0-1ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining changes: (LP bug: #1498805)
    - dispatcher-c-rewrite.patch: Rewrite dispatcher in C to avoid TCL deps.
    - redirect_dispatcher_output.patch: redirect all dispatcher output when
      called from udev to /dev/null.
    - Replace libjim/jimsh build-depends with libpipeline-dev, libudev-dev.
  * Update dipatcher-c-rewrite: add unbind_driver function as per the change
    from 2.2.3 to 2.2.5 to the TCL version of the dispatcher.
  * debian/patches/systemd_service_name.patch: fix instance name for systemd;
    make sure we don't try to start usb-modeswitch with an invalid instance name.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:52:27 -0400

Testing:
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Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.

You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
$ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s vivid -d trusty usb-modeswitch

* trusty:
[ ] Package builds without modification
[ ] usb-modeswitch installs cleanly and runs

Reverse dependencies:
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The following reverse-dependencies need to be tested against the new version of usb-modeswitch. For reverse-build-dependencies (-Indep), please test that the package still builds against the new usb-modeswitch. For reverse-dependencies, please test that the version of the package currently in the release still works with the new usb-modeswitch installed. Reverse- Recommends, Suggests, and Enhances don't need to be tested, and are listed for completeness-sake.

usb-modeswitch
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* libgammu7
  [ ] trusty (Reverse-Recommends)
* modemmanager
  [ ] trusty (Reverse-Recommends)
* lubuntu-desktop
  [ ] trusty (Reverse-Depends)
* wader-core
  [ ] trusty (Reverse-Recommends)
* usb-modeswitch-data
  [ ] trusty (Reverse-Recommends)
  [ ] trusty (Reverse-Breaks)
  [ ] trusty (Reverse-Replaces)

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Backported packages are available in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mariusko/+archive/ubuntu/network-manager-backports

Anyone having a Ubuntu Trusty installation, please try installing the packages and update the description in this bug report accordingly.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

usb-modeswitch 2.2.0 and newer versions doesn't work (regression) with lots of 3G modems - I've tested on several devices, like Vodafone (Huawei) K4510 and Huawei E303 - it seems udev or upstart simply doesn't run usb_modeswitch command, because I don't see any activity in /var/log/syslog after installing new usb-modeswitch 2.2.0+repack0-2 from ppa:mariusko/network-manager-backports :(
I see only these lines in /var/log/syslog when using new usb-modeswitch 2.2.0+repack0-2 or newer (also tried 2.2.3 from Ubuntu Wily):
Jul 11 18:26:10 samsung-355V4C udisksd[2513]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus
Jul 11 18:27:27 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 151.620238] usb 5-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
Jul 11 18:27:27 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 151.640910] usb 5-1: New USB device found, idVendor=12d1, idProduct=14c5
Jul 11 18:27:27 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 151.640926] usb 5-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
Jul 11 18:27:27 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 151.640936] usb 5-1: Product: Vodafone Mobile Broadband (Huawei)
Jul 11 18:27:27 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 151.640944] usb 5-1: Manufacturer: Vodafone Group (Huawei)
Jul 11 18:27:27 samsung-355V4C mtp-probe: checking bus 5, device 2: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.0/usb5/5-1"
Jul 11 18:27:27 samsung-355V4C mtp-probe: bus: 5, device: 2 was not an MTP device
Jul 11 18:27:28 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 151.900199] usb-storage 5-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Jul 11 18:27:28 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 151.905658] scsi5 : usb-storage 5-1:1.0
Jul 11 18:27:28 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 151.905836] usb-storage 5-1:1.1: USB Mass Storage device detected
Jul 11 18:27:28 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 151.906209] scsi6 : usb-storage 5-1:1.1
Jul 11 18:27:28 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 151.906315] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Jul 11 18:27:29 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 152.908139] scsi 5:0:0:0: CD-ROM Vodafone CD ROM (Huawei) 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jul 11 18:27:29 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 152.913172] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Vodafone Storage (Huawei) 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jul 11 18:27:29 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 152.919825] sr1: scsi-1 drive
Jul 11 18:27:29 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 152.920181] sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
Jul 11 18:27:29 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 152.920526] sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
Jul 11 18:27:29 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 152.921044] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
Jul 11 18:27:29 samsung-355V4C kernel: [ 152.923316] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk

I tried on USB2 and USB3 ports - same issue on both :(
When downgrade usb-modeswitch (and *-data) to default Trusty packages (usb-modeswitch 2.1.1+repack0-1ubuntu1 and usb-modeswitch-data 20140327-1) these modems works fine.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

Maybe issues with new usb-modeswitch 2.2.0 and newer versions could be fixed by changing priority of /lib/udev/rules.d/40-usb_modeswitch.rules to 61-usb_modeswitch.rules , see bug #1291578 ?

[Łukasz Jernaś (deejay1)]

Doesn't seem to work for my OOTB with those packages...

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

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