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Old 08-28-2009, 09:49 AM   #1
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Only Recognizes PRS-500 as Root
I assume this is a mounting issue, but when I have the PRS-500 and run Calibre as a regular user it can't locate the device. When I run as root, it does. Any ideas why? This is on the newest version of Linux Mint. Fresh install.
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Old 08-28-2009, 10:28 AM   #2
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You need read-write access to the device node (try adding your user account to plugdev, disk, usb etc) groups or do an

ls -l /dev/sd?

to see what group is needed
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Old 05-01-2010, 11:20 AM   #3
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I am having this same problem. I am running Fedora 12 and installed Calibre 0.6.51 from the Calibre website. I have an non-updated Sony 500. It is found if I run Caliibre from root, but not from my user account. In the terminal it repeats the following error:
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Unable to open device <calibre.devices.prs500.driver.PRS500 object at 0x908d3ac>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 106, in do_connect
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/devices/prs500/driver.py", line 255, in open
DeviceError: Unable to find SONY Reader. Is it connected?
Connect to device failed, retrying in 5 seconds...

I have added my user to plugdev, usb, and disk (I had to create plugdev and usb).

ls -l /dev/sd? returns:
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brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 2010-05-01 01:41 /dev/sda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 2010-05-01 01:41 /dev/sdb
These are my two hard drives.

I have also tried ls -l /dev and the list is identical whether or not the Reader is plugged in.
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Old 05-01-2010, 11:23 AM   #4
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unupgraded prs500's don't create disk device nodes. You have to look in /sys/bus/usb for the device nodes.
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Old 05-01-2010, 02:04 PM   #5
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What exactly am I looking for is there? I get:
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total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 2010-05-01 11:45 devices
drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root 0 2010-05-01 11:46 drivers
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4096 2010-05-01 11:45 drivers_autoprobe
--w-------. 1 root root 4096 2010-05-01 11:45 drivers_probe
--w-------. 1 root root 4096 2010-05-01 11:45 uevent
For /proc/bus/usb:
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total 0
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 2010-05-01 05:12 001
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 2010-05-01 05:12 002
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 2010-05-01 05:12 003
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 2010-05-01 05:12 004
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 2010-05-01 05:12 005
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 11:50 devices
I do know that it's plugged into and recognized in bus 3 from lsusb:
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Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 054c:029b Sony Corp. PRS-500 eBook reader
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:2005 Dell Computer Corp. RT7D50 Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a/HP M-UV96 Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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Old 05-01-2010, 02:19 PM   #7
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lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 1-0:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-0:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 2-0:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-0:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 2-1 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 2-1:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 2-2 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 2-2:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 3-0:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-0:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 3-1 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 3-1:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 4-0:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/4-0:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 5-0:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/5-0:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 usb1 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 usb2 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 usb3 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 usb4 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 2010-05-01 12:17 usb5 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5
It looks like everything should already have r/w access...
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That's the permissions of the links, you need the permissions of the actual files they link to
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