Comment 1 for bug 2012207

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and trying to make Ubuntu better.

This rule at the end of the file was added by upstream 4 years ago:

https://gitlab.com/gpsd/gpsd/-/commit/c0c0e53d7fe400cde49398bdcce024fb9eb1d51b

So in Ubuntu 20.04 (a.k.a Focal) we already had that in place, were you using Focal before and upgraded to Jammy (22.04)? Or is this a new installation? If you upgraded, had you experienced this issue before?

There is a patch (d/p/gpsd_hotplug_rules_disable_generic_serial_converters) in the debian package disabling a similar udev rule at the top of the file indeed:

-ATTRS{idVendor}=="067b", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2303", SYMLINK+="gps%n", @UDEVCOMMAND@
+# rule disabled in Debian as it matches too many other devices
+# ATTRS{idVendor}=="067b", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2303", SYMLINK+="gps%n", @UDEVCOMMAND@

It seems to be created before they added the other udev rule at the bottom at the file, someone might have forgotten to update the patch. I believe we should address it in the debian package and update the patch.

I also believe this is an issue to be discussed with upstream anyway. Could you try to report a bug upstream here [1]? If you do so, could you please link it here so we can track it?

[1] https://gitlab.com/gpsd/gpsd/-/issues/new