Bugzilla Bug 138632

not entirely sure what to post but beep doesnt appear to be working, i'm using
udev and have a /dev/console device, i've tried un-emerging beep and then
re-emerging it and still no joy:

kvasir ~ # emerge beep
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-misc/beep-1.2.2 to /
>>> checking ebuild checksums ;-)
>>> checking auxfile checksums ;-)
>>> checking miscfile checksums ;-)
>>> checking beep-1.2.2.tar.gz ;-)
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking beep-1.2.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/beep-1.2.2/work
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/beep-1.2.2/work/beep-1.2.2 ...
gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -o beep beep.c
>>> Source compiled.
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: app-misc/beep-1.2.2

>>> Install beep-1.2.2 into /var/tmp/portage/beep-1.2.2/image/ category app-misc
QA Notice: you should let portage compress 'beep.1' for you
>>> Completed installing beep-1.2.2 into /var/tmp/portage/beep-1.2.2/image/

man:
strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded
   usr/bin/beep

QA Notice: the following files are setXid, dyn linked, and using lazy bindings
 This combination is generally discouraged.  Try re-emerging the package:
 LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now' emerge beep
LAZY usr/bin/beep

>>> Merging app-misc/beep-1.2.2 to /
 * >>> SetUID: [chmod go-r] /var/tmp/portage/beep-1.2.2/image//usr/bin/beep 
...              [ ok ]
--- /usr/
--- /usr/bin/
>>> /usr/bin/beep
--- /usr/share/
--- /usr/share/doc/
>>> /usr/share/doc/beep-1.2.2/
>>> /usr/share/doc/beep-1.2.2/CHANGELOG.gz
>>> /usr/share/doc/beep-1.2.2/README.gz
>>> /usr/share/doc/beep-1.2.2/CREDITS.gz
--- /usr/share/man/
--- /usr/share/man/man1/
>>> /usr/share/man/man1/beep.1.gz
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> app-misc/beep-1.2.2 merged.
>>> Recording app-misc/beep in "world" favorites file...

>>> No packages selected for removal by clean.

>>> Auto-cleaning packages...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.


 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

kvasir ~ # beep
Could not open /dev/console for writing.
open: No such device
kvasir ~ # ll /dev/console 
crw-rw---- 1 root root 5, 1 May 30 10:13 /dev/console

emerge --info stuff:

Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4,
2.6.16-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config
/usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash
/etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cgi cli crypt cups curl
dri eds emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran freetds gdbm gif gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kerberos ldap libg++
libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl objc odbc ogg opengl
oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline
reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts udev usb vorbis x86 xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU
video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa video_cards_nvidia video_cards_i810
video_cards_fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Is this problem still present?
What does "strace beep" say?

System that had this problem is no longer around so you mayaswell forget about
this issue.

Closing per reporter request.