Re: [gentoo-user] Music player being run from an emerge

[David Haller]

Hello,

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>	If I log in as my usual user, alsaplayer will run the song. If I then "su"
>into root, I'm in wheel, alsaplayer will play the song. The problem is that
>when the emerge runs, then fails, alsaplayer can't appear to fire up. When an
>emerge fails, I get the usual error listings then the following:
>
> * ACCESS DENIED:  open_wr:      /dev/snd/controlC0
> * ACCESS DENIED:  open_wr:      /dev/snd/controlC0
>ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.1.9/work/alsa-lib-1.1.9/src/confmisc.c:674:(snd_determine_driver)
>could not open control for card 0
>ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.1.9/work/alsa-lib-1.1.9/src/conf.c:3572:(snd_config_hooks_call)
>function snd_config_hook_load_for_all_cards returned error: Permission denied

You'd probably need to add portage to the "audio" group ...

HTH,
-dnh

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