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TBK145

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Registered: 2020-04-28

Posts: 4

/usr/share/misc/usb.ids missing

Hello all,

I've been using Arch for between 3 to 4 years now, but I still consider myself a newbie, as this is my first experience with linux (Besides a couple of months on Ubuntu).
Last week I got a new laptop and did a clean install of Arch, and everything went quite all right so far.

Now I'm trying to get lxd/lxc working again, but it's complaining about missing /usr/share/misc/usb.ids.

fatal: [db-simple -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"actions": [], "changed": false, "msg": "Failed to run: /usr/bin/lxd forkstart db-simple /var/lib/lxd/containers /var/log/lxd/db-simple/lxc.conf: 2020/04/28 16:51:30 usbid: failed to load: open /usr/share/misc/usb.ids: no such file or directory"}

It's a log from ansible, but I got this message as well when doing 'lxd init'.

I did some searching around and found out that it's related to usbutils/hwids, which both are installed according to Pacman:

$ pacman -Q | egrep "hwids|usbutils"
hwids 20200306-1
usbutils 012-2

But locate gave me this output:

$ locate usb.ids
/usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids

Also reinstalling didn't fix it:

$ sudo pacman -S hwids usbutils
warning: hwids-20200306-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: usbutils-012-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (2) hwids-20200306-1  usbutils-012-2

Total Installed Size:  2.02 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(2/2) checking keys in keyring                                                                                                                 [########################################################################################] 100%
(2/2) checking package integrity                                                                                                               [########################################################################################] 100%
(2/2) loading package files                                                                                                                    [########################################################################################] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts                                                                                                              [########################################################################################] 100%
(2/2) checking available disk space                                                                                                            [########################################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/2) reinstalling hwids                                                                                                                       [########################################################################################] 100%
(2/2) reinstalling usbutils                                                                                                                    [########################################################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
$ locate usb.ids
/usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids

I'm thinking about just creating a symlink from /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids to /usr/share/misc/usb.ids, but that seems hacky and the wrong way to fix this.
I hope you can help me with this .

Thanks

edacval

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From: .LT

Registered: 2008-10-23

Posts: 98

Re: /usr/share/misc/usb.ids missing

Upstream silenced warning, so just wait for update .  Temporary workaround:

sudo ln -s ../hwdata/usb.ids /usr/share/misc/usb.ids

TBK145

Member

Registered: 2020-04-28

Posts: 4

Re: /usr/share/misc/usb.ids missing

Thanks! Strange I didn't find that myself .
But if I understand correctly, this would still bail out? It's not an issue that it's missing, and just creating the symlink is a correct solution?