[BRLTTY] Console open error on recent Arch Linux

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Wed Sep 24 06:37:27 UTC 2025


Hello,

Aura Kelloniemi, le mer. 24 sept. 2025 08:42:12 +0300, a ecrit:
> crw-rw----   1 root tty     7,   1 24. 9. 08:18 /dev/vcs1
> crw-rw----   1 root tty     7, 128 24. 9. 08:18 /dev/vcsa
> crw-rw----   1 root tty     7,  64 24. 9. 08:18 /dev/vcsu
> 
> I fixed the issue by supplying --stay-privileged to BRLTTY and changing the
> user from brltty to root. This of course is not an ideal solution. I don't
> know why Arch developers have decided on such a strict device permissions,

These permissions are the same on Debian: the tty group can access vcs*,
and the brltty service does add the tty group to the brltty daemon, is
that not working on Arch?

Samuel


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