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Noir

Member

From: Monterrey, Mexico

Registered: 2004-09-09

Posts: 28

No sound after upgrade!!

I ran Pacman -Syu about 2 days ago, and now I noticed that  sound doesn-t work (I get a permission denied error) unless I perform as a root a

 killall -HUP devfsd

I have already edited my devfsd.conf file as is suggested in the wiki

REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.users 660
REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.users 660

p.s. Is there some sort of pacman log where I can check what packages were upgraded. My guess is that it had something to do with the filesystem package

alkat

Member

Registered: 2004-10-16

Posts: 27

Re: No sound after upgrade!!

sound didn't work for me either...  what i did was just fix /etc/group adding the user to the new sound group now called audio.

i don't know if you're experiencing the same problem i had, but maybe you should have a look at /etc/group and see what's new in there.

.a.

LavaPunk

Member

Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 129

Re: No sound after upgrade!!

Unless I misunderstand you...
It could be because your old /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions file was moved to /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions.pacsave during the upgrade of udev.
Either move it back or make the changes manually.  You can add it as a file that should not be upgraded by adding this to your /etc/pacman.conf

NoUpgrade   = etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions

That said, you mentioned that this started happening a few days ago while udev was upgraded today.  So I could be totally off!

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: No sound after upgrade!!

Is there some sort of pacman log where I can check what packages were upgraded.

The pacman log is  /var/log/pacman.log

Noir

Member

From: Monterrey, Mexico

Registered: 2004-09-09

Posts: 28

Re: No sound after upgrade!!

sound didn't work for me either...  what i did was just fix /etc/group adding the user to the new sound group now called audio.

i don't know if you're experiencing the same problem i had, but maybe you should have a look at /etc/group and see what's new in there.

.a.

Thank you everyone for your prompt response.   What I did is add my username to the audio group and also to change devfsd.conf  to

REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
 

Everything worked again.. I just think is odd how it didnt work automatically with my previous setting (when my username belonged to the sound group)

Anyway ..everything is fine now

eedok

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2004-07-03

Posts: 19

Website

Re: No sound after upgrade!!

strange, why'd they change the name of sound group to audio?

BoomN

Member

Registered: 2003-11-12

Posts: 37

Re: No sound after upgrade!!

strange, why'd they change the name of sound group to audio?

There never was an official sound group before.  Just what people had written in the wiki