As you may or may not know, we use the Crypto Stick as our SSH authentication mechanism. Lately, some of us are experiencing ‘hanging’ every now-and-again. Yesterday, I found a blogpost on Ludovic Rousseau’s blog, detailing that this problem stems from a race condition in libusb. This problem is fixed in an experimental branch of libusb. As a full upgrade of libusb (from an experimental branch no less) is out of the question, I backported the patch to Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) and 11.11 (oneiric). These packages indeed solve the problem of the ‘hanging’ Crypto Stick (and probably every other ‘hanging’ USB device). Binary and source packages are available here in our repository. Or, you can add our repo to your sources.list:
- Natty:
deb http://debian.kumina.nl/ubuntu/ natty-kumina main - Oneiric:
deb http://debian.kumina.nl/ubuntu/ oneiric-kumina main