/dev/pmu permissions wrong

[Chris Deigan]

Upon starting GNOME a popup dialogue suggests permissions are incorrectly set on /dev/pmu (used on Apple machines).

Running up-to-date breezy (PPC) on an iBook G4.

$ ls -lah /dev/pmu
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 154 2006-01-27 00:49 /dev/pmu

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That's a known issue

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's the patch we used to ship with the package

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The patch which has been used upstream is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=57169

The package patch has been dropped since I though the upstream one was enough but it needs to be updated it seems. That would be nice if somebody owning a ppc could figure what bit of the previous patch is still required. It works fine for me, but no wonder I'm using an i386 installation :)

[John Steele Scott (toojays)]

This is the simplest solution.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 control-center (1:2.13.91-0ubuntu3) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * Add debian/patches/25_powerpc_disable_pmu_access.patch:
     - Disable fblevel handling on powerpc. /dev/pmu is only accessible by
       root, which just produces a silly error message.
     - Malone #29776