On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Jim Carter wrote: > Versions: PulseAudio 0.9.6 on SuSE 10.2, kernel 2.6.18.8 > File: /pulseaudio-0.9.6/src/daemon/main.c line 349 > Thread reference: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-January/msg00091.html > > When an ordinary user executes /usr/local/bin/pulseaudio (mode 4755) > it prints this on stderr: > > W: main.c: WARNING: called SUID root, but not in group 'pulse-rt'. > W: core-util.c: setpriority(): Permission denied > W: core-util.c: sched_setscheduler(): Operation not permitted > > /usr/local/etc/pulse/daemon.conf contains, among others, > "high-priority = 1" (which could not be honored after privileges were > dropped). /etc/group contains this: pulse-rt:!:1001:pulse,root,jimc > Workaround: When I change the GID to 601, the messages go away. This is fantastic. Finally I understand why the damn thing does not work as it should on my machine! I do second your opinion that this is more annoying than helpful. It happens so, that I have created the pulse-rt group with id over 10K... Andrzej -- Andrzej W?sowski, http://www.wasowski.org