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Fixes for annoyances in Slackware
USB scanner
When you have a USB scanner attached to your computer when it boots, and the computer uses hotplug to initialize your hardware, you will probably see something similar to the following message:
chown: cannot access `/proc/bus/usb/001/005': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/proc/bus/usb/001/005': No such file or directory
This is due to an error in the /etc/hotplug/usb.rc
script that can be repaired easily. Look for the following line in /etc/hotplug/usb.rc
and change that line to