On Tue, 02.09.08 20:12, Marc-Andr? Lureau (marcandre.lureau at gmail.com) wrote: > > Try the usual: > > > > starting pa with -vvv in verbose mode. > > > > stracing a simple client (like pacat) to see what's going on. > > Since I had a similar issue, make sure that DISPLAY is unset when you > ssh on user_b at localhost. > > The variable is passed to the PA clients (at least), and they can't > connect to the system instance and try to connect on user_a at localhost > somehow, and fail (as it seems to me). > > PA should probably be more verbose about this issue, I probably had it > in the past, but couldn't find the reason. We shouldn't be spamming to STDERR from a library. Being more verbose isn't really an option here... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4