With the latest Flash vulnerability, I ran an update, which pulled in Flash and a few other items. I also upgraded from linux-3.16.5-gentoo to linux-3.17.7-gentoo, with the usual "make oldconfig" routine, and set CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3" as indicated by cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86.
After rebooting, regular user (both waltdnes and user2) could no longer play audio, but root could. I have a lilo menu that has 2 entries "Production", and "Experimental". A new kernel is always "Experimental" until I run it for a while without problems. I reverted to "Production" (3.16.5) but that didn't help. Before everybody jumps in with the standard response, yes I am a member of group "audio". [d531][root][~] grep audio /etc/group* /etc/group:audio:x:18:waltdnes,user2 /etc/group-:audio:x:18:waltdnes,user2 Audio has worked for years on this system before the problem. I took a better look at the error messages, and had a "WTF" moment. mpg123 (and mplayer and FLASH) appears to be looking for some libraries in /var/tmp/portage/ as regular user, but root works fine. Why would a regular user app look there, when root appears to work fine? Here are the error messages for mpg123 ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.28/work/alsa-lib-1.0.28/src/confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.28/work/alsa-lib-1.0.28/src/conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.28/work/alsa-lib-1.0.28/src/confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.28/work/alsa-lib-1.0.28/src/conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.28/work/alsa-lib-1.0.28/src/confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.28/work/alsa-lib-1.0.28/src/conf.c:4259:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.28/work/alsa-lib-1.0.28/src/conf.c:4738:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.28/work/alsa-lib-1.0.28/src/pcm/pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default [/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/mpg123-1.18.1/work/mpg123-1.18.1/src/output/alsa.c:170] error: cannot open device default [/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/mpg123-1.18.1/work/mpg123-1.18.1/src/audio.c:630] error: failed to open audio device [/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/mpg123-1.18.1/work/mpg123-1.18.1/src/audio.c:180] error: Unable to find a working output module in this list: alsa [/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/mpg123-1.18.1/work/mpg123-1.18.1/src/audio.c:532] error: Failed to open audio output module [/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/mpg123-1.18.1/work/mpg123-1.18.1/src/mpg123.c:913] error: Failed to initialize output, goodbye. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
