[mythtv-users] mythbackend segfaulting (reason unknown)

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Jun 6 21:20:43 EDT 2003


On Friday 06 June 2003 06:30 pm, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> Hrmm.  Sounds like maybe your login program is handling some of the
> permissions; I seem to remember something similar where if the first
> login is root, then it would setup devices for root and local users
> couldn't access the devices in the devfs hierarchy because of
> owner/group information.  Did you look through devfsd.conf and
> friends at the permissions?

My thought also.  Depending on how your system is setup, device permissions 
might be reset/granted to the 'console' user based on the file 
/etc/pam.d/console.perms (or something like it).  I don't know about devfs... 
this is how it works on my RH8 setup.

-JAC


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