ALSA problems.

[Mr.Scrooge]

--- Dan Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 03:58:20 pm Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > Eric Paris wrote:
> > >what problems are you having, why do you believe this is an selinux
> > >issue, please, tell us what is happening, what you are seeing and
> > >provide output of errors?  If this is selinux you will find message in
> > >either /var/log/messages or /var/log/audit/audit.log which will be most
> > >interesting to the people on this list.
> > >
> > >-Eric
> > >
> > >>Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > >> I was forced to install ALSA manually in my F8 system and
> > >
> > >unfortunately,
> > >
> > >> I discovered that setting /.autorelabel did not correctly
> > >
> > >set ALSA permissions.
> > >
> > >> I did note that a bug report was filed for this.
> > >>
> > >> Meanwhile, I would like a solution to solve my issue, if
> > >
> > >there is one?
> > >
> > >> Kind regards,
> > >> Dan
> >
> > This is something I just found when searching the /var/log/message file
> > but this is not related to ALSA, but to rhgb:
> > Jan  7 13:11:44 localhost kernel: audit(1199740241.970:9): avc:  denied  {
> > read write } for  pid=1775 comm="consoletype" path="/dev/pts/0" dev=devpts
> > ino=2 scontext=system_u:system_r:consoletype_t:s0
> > tcontext=system_u:object_r:rhgb_devpts_t:s0 tclass=chr_file As for ALSA
> > issues, there was a problem writing to /etc/asound.state and to ~/.asoundrc
> > but this is not recorded where I can find it.  It only happens during
> > logoff/shutdown and I see it very briefly and it appears to be an 'alsactl
> > store' command failure and *maybe* the log below is related to it but I
> > cannot confirm it.
> > Jan  8 12:28:30 gold kernel: audit(1199823854.622:4): avc:  denied  {
> > getattr } for  pid=1264 comm="salsa" path="/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf"
> > dev=sda5 ino=147458 scontext=system_u:system_r:alsa_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> > tcontext=system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 tclass=file I DO know that alsactl is
> > not able to set the volume control settings for which I am forced to reset
> > every time at login after a boot.  There was some months ago that Daniel
> > Walsh wrote as a bug report in getting the /etc/asound.state moved to
> > /var/lib directory and it was written on Sept 17, 2007.
> >
> 
> Is there any resolution to this issue?  Seems that no one is responding
> as to what I can to do try to analyze or to fix this issue?
> 
I am resisting the temptation to quote YODA!


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