RE: ALSA problems.

["Daniel B. Thurman" <dant cdkkt com>]

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.


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