usbview doesn't start with sudo privileges and therefore doesnt work

[Redmar]

The problem:
Starting usbview from the Dash or terminal gives the following error:
"Can not open the file /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices

 Verify that you have USB compiled into your kernel,
 have the USB core modules loaded, and have the
 usbdevfs filesystem mounted.
"
Because of this, the program is not usable at all. However, the problem is not related to anything described in that error, since usbview simply needs root privileges to run.

The solution:
Run usbview with gksu.

The fix:
Add gksu as a dependency of usbview and modify the usbview.desktop command to add gksu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: usbview 2.0-2 [modified: usr/share/applications/usbview.desktop]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-27.50-generic 3.13.11
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-27-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Jun 6 08:36:41 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-04 (305 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130424)
SourcePackage: usbview
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-12-21 (166 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

This bug was fixed in the package usbview - 3.0-3

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usbview (3.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/copyright: use spaces rather than tabs to start continuation lines.
  * Update standards version to 4.6.1, no changes needed.
  * Merge minor fixes until merged upstream:
    - "Add AppStream metadata"
       https://github.com/gregkh/usbview/pull/27
    - "Display correctly when a dark GTK+ theme is used"
       https://github.com/gregkh/usbview/pull/27

 -- Barak A. Pearlmutter <email address hidden> Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:31:41 +0100

usbview (3.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Patch to #define PATH_MAX, for GNU/Hurd
  * Fully adopt package, per email from Mark Brown, who maintained this
    package for two decades of USB viewing!

 -- Barak A. Pearlmutter <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 14:17:01 +0000

usbview (3.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Uscan support
  * New upstream version 2.2 (closes: #341647, #1004138, #1004160)
    - includes 2.0-21-g6fe2f4f-2.1 patches; remove from series
  * Trim trailing whitespace.
  * Bump debhelper from deprecated 9 to 13.
  * Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends.
  * Set upstream metadata fields: Bug-Database, Bug-Submit, Repository,
    Repository-Browse.
  * Drop unnecessary dependency on dh-autoreconf.
  * Drop unnecessary dh arguments: --parallel
  * Secure upstream repo URL
  * Update standards version to 4.6.0, no changes needed.
  * Remove deprecated debian/menu file (closes: #565294)
  * Harden
  * Modernize and update debian/copyright
  * Add packaging repo on salsa
  * Upstream has desktop file; remove debian/*.desktop
  * Remove icons from debian/, as upstream has them (closes: #987078)
  * Upstream installs man page; no need to do so in debian/
  * Remove upstreamed security patches
  * New upstream version 3.0
    - does not require any privs, so drop policykit stuff like pkexec
    - quilt patch for issue in upstream .desktop file
  * Track upstream for pkexecectomy
  * Rules do not require root
  * Add self as comaintainer

 -- Barak A. Pearlmutter <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:15:29 +0000

usbview (2.0-21-g6fe2f4f-2.1) unstable; urgency=high

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Fix authorization for inactive or arbitrary other users (CVE-2022-23220)
  * Pass on the command line parameters to GTK only if not invoked via pkexec

 -- Salvatore Bonaccorso <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Jan 2022 13:42:37 +0100