[PlanetCCRMA] permission problems with recent jack update 0.109.2

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 17:59 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
> Fernandom
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I found the same suggestion by googling the
> problem but setting the permissions this way would have to be redone
> after each boot. I tried the solutions suggested at the Freebob FAQ
> page ( http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.php/UdevConfiguration )
> but none of them work with Fedora 8. I think I'll be downgrading for
> now.

The permissions can be set permanently by
editing /etc/security/console.perms (and/or associated files). 

I don't have handy the files for fc8 to look around. But it involves
setting up a new class of devices and defining which permissions to use
for both "logged in" and "logged out" conditions. 

-- Fernando


> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
> <nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 16:08 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
> >  > Hello,
> >  >
> >  > I just updated Jack to the recent 0.109.2 and I can't get it to start
> >  > using FreeBob. I get this in the messages window:
> >  >
> >  > Freebob using Firewire port 0, node -1
> >  > Ieee1394Service::initialize: Could not get 1394 handle: Permission denied
> >  > Is ieee1394 and raw1394 driver loaded?
> >  > Fatal (devicemanager.cpp)[68] initialize: Could not initialize
> >  > Ieee1349Service object
> >  > Fatal (freebob.cpp)[69] freebob_new_handle: Could not initialize device manager
> >  > LibFreeBoB ERR: cannot create libfreebob handle
> >  > FreeBoB ERR: FREEBOB: Error creating virtual device
> >  > cannot load driver module freebob
> >  >
> >  > Starting Jack using the same command but as root works fine. The
> >  > previous version of Jack didn't have this problem.
> >
> >  Check the permissions of the /dev/*1394* files first... I think that
> >  would be the difference between non-root and root based on the messages
> >  you posted. But I can't see how the jack upgrade alone would change
> >  that...
> >
> >  -- Fernando
> >
> >
> >
> 
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