Re: 16-CURRENT non root users unable to use sound/beep anymore after upgrade to a4ed783cee2a

[email protected] Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:04:59 +0000

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On Monday, June 22nd, 2026 at 12:19 PM, Alastair Hogge [email protected] wrote:

> On 2026-06-22 14:23, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > has something been recently changed in regards to user permissions for /dev/dsp,i updated my 16-current system after some days and am noticing that now a non root user which was able to access /dev/dsp and play sound is now unable to do so and fails with Failed to open '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
> 
> Yes. An audio group was added /etc/group. Have you added yourself to
> that?

ah i see that's the problem,i upgraded with pkgbase and pkgbase failed to merge the existing /etc/group and /etc/group.pkgnew

cat /etc/group | grep audio


cat /etc/group.pkgnew| grep audio
audio:*:43:

thanks i manually added the group