Do I need PolicyKit? When I do configure I get the following output Have X11: yes Enable OSS: yes Enable Alsa: yes Enable Solaris: no Enable GLib 2.0: yes Enable GConf: yes Enable Avahi: no Enable Jack: no Enable Async DNS: no Enable LIRC: no Enable HAL: yes Enable BlueZ: yes Enable TCP Wrappers: no Enable libsamplerate: yes Enable PolicyKit: no System User: pulse System Group: pulse Realtime Group: pulse-rt Access Group: pulse-access -kwan On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > Colin Guthrie wrote: > > Can you create the folder /tmp/pulse-user yourself? Can you chown and > > chmod OK on the filesystem? Perhaps it is a FAT filesystem and pulse is > > failing because the chown/chmod is not working? (not looked at the code > > for a while so not 100% sure on that one). > > This may be what's happening looking at the code, this function is > responsible for creating the /tmp/pulse-user folder: > > > http://www.pulseaudio.org/browser/tags/release-0.9.10/src/pulsecore/core-util.c#L176 > > > And this check: > > http://www.pulseaudio.org/browser/tags/release-0.9.10/src/pulsecore/core-util.c#L215 > will return an EACCESS (permission denied I believe) error if it is not > created in a secure manner. > > Try hacking that check to in your compilation to see if it works for you. > > I guess the code should check not for a Win32 OS but rather a filesystem > that does not support owners/groups/perms, but that's no doubt a bit > trickier! > > Hope this is the problem. > > Col > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -- http://www.media.mit.edu/~kwan/info.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20080429/5fdbcd6f/attachment.htm>