Dear Ajith,
I uploaded a fixed package to Debian, just before Jithin proposed an
even better fix (more general for various hardware related to Phoenix
project).
We must let some time to developers of the release.debian.org to manage
the current "unblock request".
If they agree with the unblock
Dear Georges,
I think a message may be displayed during the installation of eyes17
instructing to remove the modem manager in case of any trouble
communicating with eyes17. It is left to the user instead of a forced
removal. It is important to have it in the Distro. The users in Kerala is a
Dear Andreas,
thank you for the hint about post-installation scripts.
The colleague whom I lended my Eyes17 box could check the compatibility
of expeyes software vs. modemmanager with success: this validates the
udev rules file.
I uploaded a fixed package to unstable, anf filed an unblock
Processing control commands:
> retitle -1 python3-expeyes: superfluous Conflicts: modemmanager causes
> problems on buster->bullseye upgrades
Bug #990489 [python3-expeyes] python3-expeyes: why is there a Conflicts:
modemmanager ?
Changed Bug title to 'python3-expeyes: superfluous Conflicts:
Control: retitle -1 python3-expeyes: superfluous Conflicts: modemmanager causes
problems on buster->bullseye upgrades
On 30/06/2021 18.55, Georges Khaznadar wrote:
I attach the file eyes_udev.sh, which is called upon eyes17's
post-installation, as "eyes_udev.sh enable", thus creating or
On 30/06/2021 18.22, jithin bp wrote:
One suggestion that needs to be rigorously tested is to blacklist the
serial device of ExpEYES(VendorID:ProductID) for Modem Manager so that it
will ignore it.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1231894/modemmanager-conflicts-with-arduino
That sounds very
Sorry, here is the forgotten attachment, on e-mail later as usual.
eyes_udev.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
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Dear Jithin,
thank you for your very fast response.
I attach the file eyes_udev.sh, which is called upon eyes17's
post-installation, as "eyes_udev.sh enable", thus creating or keeping
the file /lib/udev/rules.d/99-phoenix.rules, with this content:
---8<-
On 30/06/2021 18.06, Georges Khaznadar wrote:
I ignored that a statement like "Conflicts: modemmanager" would create
problems with buster->bullseye upgrades. Currently, binary packages
conflicting with modemmanager are: eyes17, python3-expeyes,
firm-phoenix-ware. The first one, eyes17, will be
Dear Georges,
The modem-manager probes serial ports with random AT commands causing
communication errors in a wide range of devices which use the serial port,
most common ones being embedded development tools such as for the Arduino ,
PIC etc.
This issue has been reported in many forums
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Dear Andreas,
I added in Cc: the authors of Expeyes hardware and software.
Hello Jithin, Ajith! the context about the bug report with serious
severity is below.
I ignored that a statement like "Conflicts: modemmanager" would create
problems with buster->bullseye upgrades. Currently,
Package: python3-expeyes
Version: 4.8.7+repack-4
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Control: affects -1 + eyes17
Hi Georges,
while investigating incomplete buster->bullseye upgrades, I came across
the Conflicts: modemmanager in python3-expeyes. Why was that
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