Anand Buddhdev <arb <at> anand.org> writes: > I upgraded my FC4 system to FC5 last night, using yum. I use KDE. Now > I'm having all sorts of problems with permissions for devices in /dev. > I noticed immediately that I could not play any sounds. It turns out > that /dev/dsp was owned by root, with mode 0600. I did "chown <myusername> > /dev/dsp" and I could play sounds. I had to do the same with /dev/mixer. > > This morning, I discovered I could not play CDs because /dev/hdc is owned > by root.disk, with permissions 0660. Now, I can add myself to the "disk" > group, but again, it's a hack. Under FC4, everything worked fine. I found the problem, and it was partly my doing. I figured out that pam_console was not getting called. I checked my /etc/pam.d/kdm file, and pam_console is the last module called. However, before that, I had inserted another entry to be able to use pam_ssh, and it was marked "sufficient", so when it succeeded, it didn't call pam_console. I changed the order of the pam modules, putting pam_console before pam_ssh, and now it works fine. Sorry to have bothered everyone with this problem. -- Anand
