[BRLTTY] brltty suddenly wants unpriveledged user

[Anders Holmberg]

Hi!
Have yu tried changing to another port or maybe bluetooth?
It might be some issue with the USB port on the device or the computer.
/A

> 26 juli 2020 kl. 06:42 skrev John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com>:
> 
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:15:21 -0400,
> Dave Mielke wrote:
>> 
>> [quoted lines by John Covici on 2020/07/25 at 20:07 -0400]
>> 
>>> The program kept saying executing as root and then it would say unable
>>> to switch to non priveledged user brltty and then it would say user
>>> brltty not found, 
>> 
>> Yes, but actually in a mroe obvious order. First it says that it can't find the
>> brltty user. Then it says that it can't switch to the configured unprivileged
>> user. Then it says that it'll continue to execute as root. That's all good.
>> 
>>> endlessly.  What this has to do with usb, I don't know, but it sure confused
>>> me.
>> 
>> It has nothing to do with USB.That code isn't in a loop. It's only executed
>> once right when brltty starts. The only reason it'd repeat is if brltty was
>> dying (or being killed) and was then being restarted.
> 
> That is what I would have thought, but it was the same process number
> and it kept repeating at the console forever.    Also, the Braille
> display (brailliant bi 40) would make a sound and then go back to
> displaying its original humanware display as though nothing was
> connected.  It kept doing this over and over, so the USB problem did
> something mean to brltty.
> 
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> 
>         John Covici wb2una
>         covici at ccs.covici.com
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