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No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping

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Replied by Kevin Ross on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping

So I got hit with this tonight. It happened after I updated my Raspbian to the latest, by doing "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt upgrade". It just so happens I had a backup image from only a week ago, so I was able to revert with minimal loss.

This is on my Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM.

As requested, here are the last 4 lines of /proc/cpuinfo:

Hardware : BCM2835
Revision : c03111
Serial : 1000000089f01859
Model : Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1
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3 years 8 months ago #57457

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping 

cat /proc/cpuinfo | tail -n4

This is mine, also 4GB:
Hardware        : BCM2711
Revision        : c03111
Serial          : 1000000029decc50
Model           : Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1

On the RPI4 with USB issues:
Hardware        : BCM2711
Revision        : c03112
Serial          : 1000000089b8c084
Model           : Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2

Yours is v1.1 but the SoC is BCM2835?? how come? Could this actually be one issue? The Rev 1.2 here exhibits the issue, but it appears the SoC is detected correctly at least.
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Replied by Kevin Ross on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping


How come? I have no idea. :)

Since this might actually be a permissions issue, I wonder if running indiserver as root would help? I've already reverted, and I don't want to update to the latest just to test this theory.
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping

Yes running as root works, but this is not really a solution. Something is broken.
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Replied by Kevin Ross on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping

Of course I didn't mean it as a permanent solution, but rather a troubleshooting step, to see if it really is a permissions issue with the new update.
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Replied by Kevin Ross on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping


Jasem,

Are you using a USB hub? I only had this problem when using a powered USB3 hub. If I unplugged the hub, and plugged my devices into the Pi directly, the problem went away.

Since the skies are cloudy and I'm bored, I updated my system again to the latest, with the 5.4 kernel. I can confirm that running indiserver as root does indeed allow things to work again. I know this is not a fix, but at least it allows us to get up and running with the latest release of Raspbian, while we figure out what the problem is.

I posted a message on the Raspbian forum, we'll see if they can offer some help.
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping

In fact, I am using an external powered USB hub with the unit giving me the trouble! You got a link to the forum post?
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Replied by Avocette on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping

The powered USB3.0 hub is definitely in the mix. This is one thread www.indilib.org/forum/astroberry/7379-us...day-s-upgrading.html and possibly this www.indilib.org/forum/astroberry/7371-ho...astroberry-rpi4.html
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping

Thanks Ed! I was actually asking about the raspbian forum link... If we gather enough info, we can file an issue on the Raspberry Pi Linux github.
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Replied by Kevin Ross on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping

I believe I have traced it down to a permissions issue on the USB bus itself, in the /sys hierarchy.
$ ls -l /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 30 02:41 /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1 -> ../../../devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 30 02:41 /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb2 -> ../../../devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb2

Following the symlinks:
$ ls -ld /sys/devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb*
drw-rw---- 6 root root 0 Jul 30 02:41 /sys/devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Jul 30 02:41 /sys/devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb2

Notice anything wrong with the permissions on one of them?

These aren't individual USB devices, but rather USB buses.
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 03c3:1604  
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 174c:3074 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1074 SuperSpeed hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 174c:3074 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1074 SuperSpeed hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

As you can see, it only shows Bus 2, which matches the permissions listed above.

Now for the magic.
$ sudo chmod +rx /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 03c3:1604  
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 174c:3074 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1074 SuperSpeed hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 174c:3074 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1074 SuperSpeed hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 03c3:1f01  
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04b4:6572 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 1618:0921  
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 Serial (UART) IC
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 174c:2074 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1074 High-Speed hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 174c:2074 ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1074 High-Speed hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

And I confirmed INDI is now happy, running as a regular user, not root.

So, my short-term fix is to add this one line to /etc/rc.local:
chmod +rx /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*

sudo isn't necessary because it already runs as root.
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Replied by Kevin Ross on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping


Not yet. I posted last night, but it hasn't been released from moderation yet. Once it is released, I'll add this information to the Raspbian forum post (and share the link here of course).
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic No ASI Camera after Update - Suspect port mapping

So that doesn't work in my case. So I tried changing what they're pointed to:
chmod -R +rx /sys/devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie

So while that makes lsusb works, when you try to use drivers they cannot access libusb still (e.g. QHY). So it's still broken.
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