Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 134327
Only one user can access devices
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:50 EST
Description of problem: Shared devices (such as scanner and sound) can only be used by one user. All others are unable to access them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.77-60 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login as one user, soundcard is fine. Logout 2. Login as another user, soundcard is blocked This also applies to scanners and other devices Actual results: Sound and scanner are blocked. Expected results: Sound and scanner should work for any user Additional info: The first user to access the soundcard takes control of the card. The old way I used to use was to make the soundcard and scanner a member of their own groups and then make all users members of (say) the soundcard group. That used to work. It doesn't now. I would consider this inability as a blocker, but have not passed it to the developers list.
It should be reset on logout so the second user can have access.
I can't reproduce this here. With two users, 'bob', and 'joe'. bob logs in on the console -> bob owns the audio devices. bob logs out. devices are reset to root. joe logs in on the console -> joe owns the audio devices. joe logs out. devices are reset to root.
Not happening here on either the fresh FC3t2 box or the updated from FC2. paul logs into X and into console -> paul owns sound, root owns scanner paul logs out of X bev logs into X -> !bev owns sound, root owns scanner The permissions are not being correctly set
paul is still logged in on console, ergo, permissions not reset.
if paul is not logged in as console, only logged into an X session, logs out, bev logs into an X session, permissions not reset - she still can't access the scanner (which paul couldn't either!) or the soundcard. Ergo, permissions not reset
I think there could be some problem with our udev setup (however I'm not sure). Paul: you've written in comment #3 that bev after logging into X owns sound, or I misunderstood you?
Whoever logs in first gets the soundcard. It doesn't matter if they log in as console only or into X. The permissions are not being reset when the user logs out. If bev logs in first, she gets the permissions for the soundcard. If richard logs in first, he gets the permissions, if I log in first, I get the permissions. These are then *not* reset for the next user on logging out. It may be related, but if a user is logged in more than once (for instance, I may be logged in on 4 terminals at once), then they logout of X, the next person won't be able to enable sound due to the other user being still logged in on the terminals. Can things be made that such items as sound, scanners etc are made universal irrespective of the number of times someone is logged in?
The first behavior is a bug, the second behavior is expected, just FYI.
I know the second one is expect, it's a pain in the backside though - especially when I'm using a terminal to do lots of things in the background...
Just as a test. I've rebooted and logged in as another user, xmms is automatically started on loggin in. I log out and then log in as myself. Both /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1 are owned by bev.root. If I then chown paul.root /dev/dsp and chown paul.root /dev/dsp1, xmms still reports that the sound card is blocked. However, if I then say to use the OSS driver, sound is restored. This now leads me to suspect both Alsa and pam are at fault here. This suspicion is further raised in that xine will play audio despite xmms saying the sound card is blocked (audio on xine goes through OSS rather than anything else). At the time, I was not logged into any consoles - one user at a time
With the latest udev package I don't see anything like you reported. Older packages were probably the source of the bug. You can try to upgrade udev (you should upgrade kernel, mkinitrd and initscripts as well) and verify if it's fixed. Of course the second behaviour in comment #7 is WONTFIX for the FC3. You can open an enhancement request after that.