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[Daniel Chen <seven.steps@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:40 AM, David Henningsson
<david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I got a bad feeling that we have some kind of regression with latest
> Lucid updates. Cards are listed by aplay as "no soundcards found..." but
> still they have /dev/snd device nodes. This has happened during the last
> week or so. See #617388, #618272, #618686, #619870, #620985.

Hmm, at least in the case of #620985, it smells like a
ConsoleKit-related one. The reporter vouches that adding his user to
@audio resolves the symptom [which is in fact the *wrong* way to "fix"
the issue], so somehow his foreground/active seat wasn't being granted
access to /dev/snd/*.