[mythtv-users] Upgrading my fedora 10 system breaks audio (removes permissions)

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 22:50:33 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:36 PM, John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Gabe Rubin<gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Haven't seen a response to this yet, and was wondering if anyone has
>> any idea about this.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Gabe Rubin<gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> Over the last week, I have upgraded my fedora 10 myth system via smart
>>> 2 times.  Each of these times resulted in my audio not playing back.
>>> I figured out that this was a permission issue and issuing this
>>> command "chmod ugo+rw *" in the /dev/snd directory fixes it.  Why do I
>>> keep losing the permission settings after an upgrade?
>>>
>
> Is the user that you run the frontend under in the audio group?
>

I am not sure.  I will have to check and confirm that it is.  All I
know is that in the past I could upgrade and have no issues, but now,
upgrading changes the perms of all the devices in /dev/snd


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