On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:54:44AM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Hmm. > What release are you using? Thats odd that adduser and addgrp hang. latest unstable.... (fresh install on a new comp...)
> After a totally clean reinstallation it seems to work now. What the the > ls -al on /dev/dsp and friends? That may be part of it too. i set them to my standard settings: kalman:~# ll /dev/audio* /dev/dsp* crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 4 Jul 5 2000 /dev/audio crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 20 Jul 5 2000 /dev/audio1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 36 Jul 5 2000 /dev/audio2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 52 Jul 5 2000 /dev/audio3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 5 2000 /dev/dsp crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 19 Jul 5 2000 /dev/dsp1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 35 Jul 5 2000 /dev/dsp2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 51 Jul 5 2000 /dev/dsp3 perhaps not the safest, but i am the only one supposed to use sound on this system...... and indeed root is able to launch esd, but not me, despite beeing in the audio group..... -- ciao bboett ============================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett http://erm1.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett =============================================================== the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant. human population is growing....