In the meanwhile, I found out that this bug is due to permission issues when accessing USB.
This issue affects all applications accessing garmin GPS devices directly via usb (such as gpsbabel). Here is a description and a solution: http://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html The relevant part is this: To allow the USB devices to be read and written by a non-privileged user, create a named /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules with the following contents: SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="666" Would it be possible to create such a rule by default? Or does it have any security problems? At the current state, it's simple not possible to access Garmin GPS devices as an unprivileged user. -- can't upload data without root priviliges https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243716 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
