Lennart Poettering wrote: > 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? This is possible. On my computer, I many times toggle between my normal user and "root". I might have attempted to play something from "root". I ended up resolving this issue on the computer in question by running the PA daemon in --system mode. After doing so, everything started working normally again. > > Lennart >