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

Jun 22, 2026 19:48:04 Mark Millard <[email protected]>:

> On 6/22/26 03:04, [email protected] wrote:
>> On Monday, June 22nd, 2026 at 2:54 PM, Tomoaki AOKI <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:23:36 +0000
>>> [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
>>>
>>> You'll need to add the user who need to access audio devices
>>> to recently added audio group (gid=43) just like you'll be doing
>>> for X11/Wayland screens for video (gid=44) group.
>>>
>>> IIRC, audio group is added to stable/15, too, but switches for
>>> audio device to audio group is NOT merged not to violate POLA.
>>>
>>> This is described in /usr/src/UPDATING at the entry dated 20260521.
>>>   https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/UPDATING#n42
>>>
>>> Please habitally confirm UPDATING. I believe it should be
>>> a good habit.
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tomoaki AOKI    <[email protected]>
>>>
>> sorry i forgot to clarify properly,i didn't anticipate a failed merge of /etc/group by pkg during upgrade, i had checked the available groups after upgrade but audio group wasn't available due to the failed merge(at that point i wasn't aware the merge failed) so i assumed it wasn't the problem
>>
>> thanks for the reminder about UPDATING entries,they slipped my mind
>>
>>
>
> I could imagine that, for now, it would be good if, at the very end of
> its output, pkg upgrade or pkg install reported on how many *.pkgnew
> files and/or *.pkgsave files had been had been generated, at least when
> the number is positive. It would prompt to investigate.
>
+1 on the warning at the end of the pkg session!