Hello! this change was done by systemd in commit https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/a4d1891475
I pushed fix to archlinux brltty package https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/brltty/-/commit/fcb9ae5937575e1df759db92fc828ed76c7586eb On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 06:12:55AM -0600, Rob Hudson wrote: > I have a hack in place. > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-brltty.rules > SUBSYSTEM=="tty", > KERNEL=="tty[0-9]*|hvc[0-9]*|sclp_line[0-9]*|ttysclp[0-9]*|3270/tty[0-9]*", > GROUP="tty", MODE="0620" > Then > udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger > This fixed all the problems. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Aura Kelloniemi <[email protected]> > To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." > <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:28:29 +0200 > Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY appears severely broken > > > Hi Rob, > > > > On 2025-11-12 at 03:42 -0600, "Rob Hudson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I added those lines to the brltty.conf file. Unplugged my display. > > Killed all brltty processes. Replugged the display and tried to get into a > > console. Unplugged display, re-killed all processes. No log file was > > created. The path I used was /var/log/brltty.log > > > > BRLTTY cannot write to /var/log as it is running under an unprivileged user. > > You need to put the log file to /tmp/ or some other directory where the > > `brltty` user has write permissions. > > > > Your original problem, by the way, most likely is that BRLTTY does not have > > access to /dev/tty0. It is a permissions problem. > > > > As far as I understand, Arch has not changed anyghing, it is Linux kernel > > itself that has changed default permissions of /dev/tty devices. > > > > You can try running your Arch with linux-lts kernel package to try to > > confirm > > my theory. > > > > There is a fix already in BRLTTY's git repository. It fixes this. > > > > -- > > Aura > > _______________________________________________ > > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > > For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty > > > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty -- Sincerely, Alexander _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
