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

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:45:07 UTC 
On 6/22/26 03:04, polyduekes@proton.me wrote:
> On Monday, June 22nd, 2026 at 2:54 PM, Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:23:36 +0000
>> polyduekes@proton.me 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    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
>>
> 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.

(I focus on number in case the list of such files is large, something
that should not be common. But I have had examples of non-configuration
files end up with such *.pkg{new,save} files, though not recently.)

-- 
===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com