On Sun, 13.05.07 13:08, Svein Halvor Halvorsen (pulse at svein.halvorsen.cc) wrote: > When using pulse as an ordinary user on FreeBSD, I get an shm_open() error: > > $ ogg123 file.ogg > shm.c: shm_open() failed: Permission denied > Assertion failed: (pool), function pa_pstream_new, file > pulsecore/pstream.c, line 221. > Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) I am not FreeBSD user, but you probably have some access issues with your POSIX shared memory file system. On Linux this is implemented using a tmpfs mounted to /dev/shm. You should find out how POSIX shm is implemented on FreeBSD. Most likely it is implemented as a mountable fs as well. Diego, maybe you can help Svein? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4