Random Permission Problems
Ok, so heres the deal.
I had a power outage the other day, and ever since then things have been not quite right in my linux world. Mostly with permissions. The most noticeable issue is the audio. There is none. My first thought was that a module failed to load, so I checked, and everything appears as it should. So I ran a trace on alsamixer, because it was saying no devices found, figured out that I had a permission problem on Code:
/dev/snd/controlC0 Code:
audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Permission denied Code:
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2009-03-01 00:49 dsp Does anyone know how often the group file is updated? Is it updated immediately after modification of group info? I tried backing up my group file and modifying it manually, and that hasnt fixed the problem. Also, another wierd thing to note is that in my gkrellm, all of my sensors disappeared, which was setup using a modified amd sensor to work right with my quad-core, but thats a different story. But all of this happened all at once, which I believe that it is all related. Any ideas on where I should go now? Thanks |
what is the result of running
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cat /etc/group | grep audio cheers, jdk |
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audio:x:17:root,myuser Thanks, |
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jdk |
After a restart that seemed to fix the problem. So all in all, what I had to do was modify the group file by hand, and restart. That has to be the first time that restarting fixed something in linux!
Thanks |
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