Jim Carter wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Stefan Czinczoll wrote: > >> Got it running at the end! The clue was to start pulseaudio not as user, >> but as root... > >> $ pulseaudio --daemonize >> [WARN 11203] polkit-session.c:144:polkit_session_set_uid(): session != NULL >> Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace >> E: polkit.c: Cannot set UID on session object. >> etc. > > I think a better solution is probably to cause yourself to have the needed > privileges. In my case (with PulseAudio-0.9.6, SuSE 10.2, PolicyKit-0.2) > it was sufficient to put my own loginID in the pulse-rt group, i.e. > /etc/group says: > pulse-rt:!:601:pulse,root,jimc The pulse-rt group should not be needed with policy-kit (group based privs and policykit based privs are two separate systems AFAIK) but I think your approach is generally correct and that starting pulse as root is *not* the right solution to this problem. It's possibly that you have been caught by a permissions problem that was in cooker due to udev a while back (but it's been solved for a while). Come on to #mandriva-cooker IRC and I'll try and help you debug this now that it's apparent that the hardware is physically working :) Col
