Wine failing to detect USB device hot plugging

[Matt Caswell]

Binary package hint: wine

I have package wine-1.0.1-0ubuntu2 installed on my Ubuntu 8.10 (AMD64) box.

Wine is failing to detect USB hot plug events. For example running winefile, and then plugging in a USB drive, winefile does not detect the new USB drive (although GNOME does, and the USB drive is mounted correctly, and I can navigate to it through Nautilus).

I believe this is a problem with the way the wine package has been built rather than with wine itself (I understand that wine does normally support this functionality). I suspect the problem is that wine has been built without HAL support. Wine's mountmgr uses HAL to detect hardware device changes.

Running the following command:

 WINEDEBUG=+mountmgr wine winefile >mountmgr.log 2>&1

produces the attached log. In particular the following line is of interest:

trace:mountmgr:initialize_hal Skipping, HAL support not compiled in

Without HAL wine's hot plugging functionality is disabled. The wine packages need to be built with the libhal-dev files present prior to running ./configure

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

I recently uncovered a problem with D-Bus, which would definitely mess up Hal. Are you on 64-bit by chance?

[Matt Caswell (matt-openssl)]

Yes, I am running 64-bit.

This is particularly frustrating since attempting to compile wine from source on 64-bit seems to be a non-trivial task! ./configure keeps falling over with various 32-bit/64-bit problems.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wine - 1.0.1-0ubuntu3

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wine (1.0.1-0ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/rules:
    - Fix link for libdbus on amd64
    - Should fix hotplugging USB events (LP: #297001)
    - Provide a link for libgnutls on amd64
    - Might fix some of the SSL weirdness on apps like uTorrent
  * debian/control:
    - Build-depend on libgnutls-dev

 -- Scott Ritchie <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:38:16 -0800

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Requesting Ack for Stable Release Update in Intrepid (and Hardy, actually, which has another SRU awaiting ack at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/285341)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

motu-sru, ack for this one?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Still waiting for motu-sru ack.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Matt Caswell (matt-openssl)]

I can confirm that this issue is fixed in 1.0.1-0ubuntu3 from intrepid-proposed.

After installing on my Ubuntu 8.10 (AMD64) box, I re-ran:

WINEDEBUG=+mountmgr wine winefile >mountmgr.log 2>&1

I then inserted a USB flash drive. This produced the attached log file.

The error regarding no HAL support is gone. Wine can be seen detecting the hotplug event in the following line:

trace:mountmgr:add_dos_device added device e: udi "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/
volume_uuid_8E98_1D37" for "/dev/sdc1" on "" type "disk"

Things still did not work entirely as I expected since winefile still did not update to show the new drive. Not sure why....but as far as this particular defect goes I believe it to be fixed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wine - 1.0.1-0ubuntu3~intrepid1

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wine (1.0.1-0ubuntu3~intrepid1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/rules:
    - Fix link for libdbus on amd64
    - Should fix hotplugging USB events (LP: #297001)
    - Provide a link for libgnutls on amd64
    - Might fix some of the SSL weirdness on apps like uTorrent
  * debian/control:
    - Build-depend on libgnutls-dev

 -- Scott Ritchie <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:44:51 -0800