On Tue, 29.04.08 11:59, Jim Carter (jimc at math.ucla.edu) wrote: > > > 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. This is btw a very good DoS attack for PA. It now has been fixed in the glitch-free branch in SVN. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
