Seems like I have problems with starting up Gnome because of the permissions on /dev/audio. Maybe that's not the main problem - but seems like what's happening isn't right:

chmod 666 /dev/audio
It sets the permissions to:
crw-rw-rw-
After 1/2/3 reboots it sweeches back to
crw-------
Why? I'm pretty new to Linux, but I think that this shouldn't happen.

I have Mandrake 9.0

Thanks

I'm not sure of why it happens, but maybe you could put chmod 666 /dev/audio in your startup rc file.. it isn't a good fix, but it will solve the problems somewhat.


(Also, did you make sure to change the permissions while in root? not "su" but "su -")



I'm somewhat new to linux so I hope this helped, if not...

-vex

Is /dev/audio a symlink or is it created by devFS? Probably. the chmod command should work as long as it's in your rc.local file which will be executed long after DevFS has created your device(s). To find if it's a symlink to the actual device:
ls -l /dev/audio

If it is a symlink, apply the chmod perms to the actual device.

Cool

Thanks for the replays.
Where is this rc file that I should change?
And since I'm pretty new to Linux - I don't know what is "devFS".
The /dev/audio is not a symlink.

DevFS is something that creates your devices during boot. The old way was to create MANY (just about anything I've ever needed) during the initial install. DevFS has quite a few advantages, good stuff I think.

On my Mandrake system, rc.local is in /etc/rc.d and there is also a symlink in /etc/rc.local for it. In there you would just enter the lines:
chmod 666 /dev/audio

And that's it. On subsequent reboots this should chmod that device at the end of the bootup process.

Cool

Ok, thanks - I'll see if it's working (since my problem appears after a few reboots).
Now, when I started Linux in text mode - I noteced one thing. I didn't notice it before since it was all working well, but now I saw that it says something like this:
Failed to start devfs deamon: something something file .devfs is missing etc.
I never get the time to see it entirely... But I don't see this error at all when I start Linux in graphical mode...
Wierd that I saw it just now when you told me about it...
Do you know what might be a problem?
Thanks for your help so far...

It's like one of those things. You hear a new word and all of a sudden, everyone is using it.

Anyway, check dmesg and /var/log/messages to see if you can hunt down the error and post up the error message for us a bit better.

Cool

Ok, this is what I found in the /var/log/messages:

Feb 3 16:04:34 localhost devfsd: Error opening file: ".devfsd"^INo such file or directory
Feb 3 16:04:34 localhost devfsd: Starting devfsd daemon: failed