Sound devices no longer accessible by audio group

Tue Dec 4 21:12:14 UTC 2012

On 12/04/2012 04:07 AM, Brendan Jones wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 10:39 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>> Since the latest yum update I have to run audio programs as root
>> in order to access an audio device.  Previously being a member of
>> audio group was sufficient.
>>
> Running audio programs as root should not be necessary and is almost 
> never encouraged.
>
> Can you please file a bug outlining the steps you took to diagnose 
> this problem? Perhaps pulseaudio was run as root at one time leaving a 
> /tmp/.esd1000 file with root permissions lying around? Or perhaps it 
> was a MIDI problem. Please file a bug.

rm -R /tmp/.esd* seems to have fixed the problem,
which may have been caused by the cpu/motherboard swap.

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