Subject: Bug#221739: /etc/hotplug/usb.agent generates 100s of lines of
    error output
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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:06:50 -0500
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Package: hotplug
Version: 0.0.20031008-1
Severity: normal


If there's an unparseable line in /lib/modules/modules.usbmap, usb.agent
generates hundreds (in my case, over 600) lines of output during the
boot; specifically, it repeatedly prints out the environment, which
includes all the functions it has just loaded.

Easy fix: change this:

--------------------------------------------------------
    while read line
    do
        # comments are lines that start with "#" ...
        # be careful, they still get parsed by bash!
        case "$line" in
        \#*) continue ;;
        esac
--------------------------------------------------------

to this:

--------------------------------------------------------
    while read line
    do
        # comments are lines that start with "#" ...
        # be careful, they still get parsed by bash!
        case "$line" in
        \#*) continue ;;
        "") continue ;;
        esac
--------------------------------------------------------

(note the added line in the case statement.) It might also be a good
idea to count the lines in modules.usbmap and report the one that fails
to parse... I still have to hunt down which one it is. :)


Regards,
Ben Okopnik
-=-=-=-=-=-

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux Fenrir.Thor 2.4.22 #5 Wed Nov 19 15:20:15 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages hotplug depends on:
ii  debconf                    1.3.15        Debian configuration management sy
ii  module-init-tools          0.9.15-pre2-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                   2.4.25-1      Linux module utilities
ii  procps                     1:3.1.12-1    The /proc file system utilities

-- debconf information:
* hotplug/usb_keyboard: 
  hotplug/x11_usbmice_hack: false
* hotplug/static_module_list: usb-uhci
* hotplug/usbd_enable: true