On Sun, 20.04.08 21:04, Jim Duda (jim at duda.tzo.com) wrote: > I don't know what I have done now, but suddenly sound stopped working on > my desktop fc8 computer. I must have changed some setting ... > > I'm getting this message in /var/log/messages whenever I try to play > anything. Can anyone tell me what this message indicates? > > pstream.c: Recieved SHM frame on a socket where SHM is disabled. Yepp. this is some issue in PA. I am the one to blame. I think there's even a bug filed about this. The PA client code makes different assumptions after auth then the server code does. You probably triggered this by accessing PA from different user ID? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4