When using GDM to login it changes the permissions of /dev/snd/* to <user>:users 600 (where <user> is the user logged in) - This make it impossible to play music whith mpd whitout shanging the permissions back. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install GDM 2. Login using GDM. Actual Results: The permission of /dev/snd/* is changed to <user>:users 600 Expected Results: the permissions shuld be leaved as before (probebly root:audio 660) Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 22 2004, 17:04:02)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1, 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo" LDFLAGS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aalib acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt cups divx4linux dvd dvdr encode esd f77 fam fla flac fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib insecure-drivers java jp2 jpeg junit libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod mpeg msn multilib mysql ncurses network nls no-old-linux offensive oggvorbis opengl operanom2 pdflib php png posix pthreads python qt radeon readline rtc samba sdl slang sockets spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vanilla videos vim xine xml xml2 xpm xrandr xv zlib"
are you sure it's gdm, seems unlikely. I bet it's the soundserver or something.
Yes it's GDM, I can login usign falesafe xterm, and still the permissions changes - I have also checkd whith % ps aux | less and can't se any soud-demon running
I think it may be related to the pam_console "feature" changing perms when someone logs in... See : bug 1658 bug 27857 If it's the same bug, you should be able to workaround this by playing with pam_console configuration. We are trying to remove pam_console use by default as it messes up everything, but we lack PAM developers to solve this (see bug 31877 tracker for progress).
I had the same problem before, but it seems to have been resolved since this bug has been opened. Not sure exactly what version it was resolved but I'm currently running GDM 2.8.0.1-r1 without the issue. Does the reporter still have an issue?
no response from reporter
