Description of problem: Applied recent updates to my x86_64 f12 system and those killed audio, again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # rpm -qa|grep pulse alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.22-1.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-equalizer-2.7-1.fc12.noarch pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.21-5.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.21-5.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-5.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-5.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-5.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-5.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.21-5.fc12.x86_64 kde-settings-pulseaudio-4.3-18.noarch pulseaudio-0.9.21-5.fc12.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-5.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum update 2. reboot 3. try to play audio Actual results: # ls -l /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 60 2010-06-27 00:54 by-path crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 2010-06-27 00:54 controlC0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 2010-06-27 00:54 pcmC0D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 2010-06-27 00:54 pcmC0D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 2010-06-27 00:54 pcmC0D1c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 2010-06-27 00:54 seq crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 2010-06-27 00:54 timer pacmd list-cards ---> lists nothing. # cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [AMD8111 ]: ICH - AMD AMD8111 AMD AMD8111 with ALC655 at irq 17 Expected results: Something with local console user's rw permissions. Additional info: testing this with chmod o+rw /dev/shm/pcm* makes the audio work again. I've a feeling that those groups should have changed when user logged in, perhaps something is missing from /etc/security/console.perms.d/ directory? PA has so often different kind of problems, that it would help if there would be a python tool that would do different kind of tests and hint the user into right direction in problem solving. For me this took quite many hours to get this far as i'm not interested in audio as long it works. That time is away from other OSS projects.
PA doesn't manage device access. That's between udev and ConsoleKit. Device access should normally follow whoever is the owner of active virtual console and is dynamically updated. Please verify with getfacl /dev/snd/controlC0 that the ACLs properly follow the active VT.
# getfacl pcmC0D* controlC0|grep tuju user:tuju:rw- user:tuju:rw- user:tuju:rw- user:tuju:rw- # ls -lZ drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 by-path crw-rw----+ root audio system_u:object_r:sound_device_t:s0 controlC0 crw-rw-rw-+ root audio system_u:object_r:sound_device_t:s0 pcmC0D0c crw-rw-rw-+ root audio system_u:object_r:sound_device_t:s0 pcmC0D0p crw-rw-rw-+ root audio system_u:object_r:sound_device_t:s0 pcmC0D1c crw-rw----+ root audio system_u:object_r:sound_device_t:s0 seq crw-rw----+ root audio system_u:object_r:sound_device_t:s0 timer Actually it does. Now i've a situation when all access rights are fine for me as a user, but it still doesn't produce any sound. I've a feeling that there are so many ways how audio can get stuck nowdays that it's hard to reproduce these problems. Okay, this time pulseaudio -k as a user helped.
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