On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:38:45PM -0300, Igor Almeida wrote: > > Hi Johnathan, > > Thank you for the insight. I was indeed NOT a user of the usrp group > to which udev was configuring the block device. > The thing is, we have an LDAP-configured network here, and we use it > to fetch a number of configs, including groups, passwords and whatnot. > > Bottom line, there were two 'usrp' groups: one from /etc/group, with > no members; and the other was from LDAP, with myself as member. > > So I removed the usrp group from /etc/group{,-}, and it no longer > exists acording to 'getent group|grep usrp', but now udev seems to be > confused as it changes the permissions correctly, but the group > association is not performed: > /dev/bus/usb/007: > total 0 > crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 768 2008-12-19 06:38 001 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 189, 769 2008-12-19 09:50 002 > > Notice the crw-rw---- block, which showed up when I plugged the usb cable. > > So if udev cannot be aware of the usrp group fetched from LDAP, the > whole LDAP-centralizing-access-permissions scheme goes down, because I > will have to manually create and maintain/synchronize the usrp group > in every machine on the lab.
Have you looked at any of the system log files? Usually /var/log/* They'll probably tell you what's going on. There may also be a way to increase the level of debug output from udev. Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio