Lennart Poettering wrote: > Hmm, sounds like an evil messup with autospawn done from SUID programs > or more likely those started via "su". Will look into this > eventually, before I do the next release. > > I am not sure why people would start audio applications as root > anyway. People doing stuff like that deserve to be annoyed by issues > like this one ;-) I linked to a patch on bug 215 that seems to fix things for me but I'm guessing may cause issues on other platforms. If it works for you on fedora then it's all good but I'm fairly sure Sjored said his system worked OK and had the $USER and $USERNAME arguments the opposite way round to me. I tested on Mandriva and CentOS 5 with the same results. YMMV. Col