On 2017-07-01, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > Secondly, most of the error messages involved alsa rather > than the CD player. How does root get on with playing > sound files from other sources? >
Actually, upon further reflection, the root error message from his original post was: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid 1000! (This could e g happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAudio as a root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.) which might mean the incriminated environment variable is being inherited from his user shell (if he used 'su' maybe). So, in order obviate that, he should--well, you tell me. -- “Yeah yeah.” --Sidney Morgenbesser's retort to a speaker who said that although there are many cases in which two negatives make a positive, he knew of no case in which two positives made a negative.
