from the strace you pasted, i see that it cannot find the file usb.ids, which
matches vendor:device id pairs to human-readable strings:
open("./usb.ids", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
can you check the existence of the file /var/lib/misc/usb.ids ?
if not, try removing and re-installing the package usbutils...
** Changed in: usbutils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
--
lsusb does not work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184139
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
