The files /var/run/pulse nor /tmp/pulse-user are not created at all. I manually create them, but that does not help either. Maybe it's because it's tmpfs. Is there any way to change this? Thank you! -kwan On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Jim Carter <jimc at math.ucla.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Colin Guthrie wrote: > > Kwan Hong Lee wrote: > > > I have been able to build pulseaudio on maemo 4.0 by getting the lates > > > libltdl. > > > > > > I have added the pulse user, pulse group, pulse-access group and and > > > added pulse to the audio group. I added normal user to pulse-access. > > > > I'm not really sure how this applies in the context of a Maemo, but > > certainly on desktop targets it's generally not advised any more to run > > a single pulseaudio daemon, but rather run one pa daemon per user > > accessing sound. > > Maemo normally uses a system-wide instance of ESD running as root. > Maemo is intended for a PDA-like context where the person in physical > possession is the authorized console user, and they tend to commingle > system-level and userspace functions. It's a very different world from > the > usual desktop or server system, and IMHO there are advantages to the > desktop way of doing things. > > One of the Nokia developers is working on getting PA and Bluez (A2DP) > working, though I don't think he has officially stated for which OS he's > doing this project. Apparently the differences between the ARM and Intel > instruction sets make it hard to meet the desired CPU load goals due to > optimization issues. Maybe he'll have comments. > > > > user$ pulseaudio > > > W: core-util.c: setpriority(): Permission denied > > > E: main.c: Failed to create '/tmp/pulse-user': Permission denied > > > > 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). > > The filesystem for /tmp is tmpfs, and for the main flash disc is jffs2. > But the expansion flash "discs" are typically vfat, hiss, boo. > > If /tmp/pulse-user had already been created as root, probably mode 700, > that would explain the second "permission denied". Pick one style, remove > the directory, and likely everything will be fine. > > > > If I run as root > > > > > > pulseaudio --system > > > W: core-util.c: setpriority(): Permission denied > > > E: main.c: Failed to create '/var/run/pulse': Permission denied > > /var/run is a symlink to /tmp/.run, root:root 755. If PA is configured to > drop privileges, i.e. change to user "pulse", and this happens before the > PID file is created, that would explain this error. Then again, it could > also be a pre-existing PID file created as root. > > Have you added "user" to group pulse-rt in /etc/group? Although modern PA > goes through PolicyKit to get realtime priority, I imagine it can fall > back > to the group method when PolicyKit is not available, as in Maemo-4.0. > > James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 > UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 > Email: jimc at math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc<http://www.math.ucla.edu/%7Ejimc>(q.v. for PGP key) > _______________________________________________ > 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/c4f1bdf4/attachment.htm>
