Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt' [SOLVED]

2007-01-12 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:54:08AM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote: > pulseaudio started no problem. Thanks for all you help in tracking this > down. No problem, thanks for reporting. -- CJ van den Berg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt' [SOLVED]

2007-01-12 Thread Zoho Vignochi
The problem was I had the permissions on my home directory set to": drwx-- 31 bbb bbb 4096 2007-01-11 10:53 bbb So returning back to system-wide readable directories: drw-r--r-- 44 bbb bbb 4096 2007-01-12 11:45 bbb pulseaudio started no problem. Thanks for all you help in tracking this

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-10 Thread Zoho Vignochi
On Wed, 2007-10-01 at 02:48 +0100, CJ van den Berg wrote: > I really suspect this has something to do with SELinux, but I really don't > know much about it, so I'm just guessing. I purged all the selinux packages (except libsepol1 and libselinux1 as they are dependencies for other base packages). S

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-09 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:06:47PM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-01 at 01:49 +0100, CJ van den Berg wrote: > > If you could, please "chmod +s /usr/bin/strace" and then run strace > > pulseaudio again and send me the output. This time it should also behave as > > it does when you sta

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-09 Thread Zoho Vignochi
On Wed, 2007-10-01 at 01:49 +0100, CJ van den Berg wrote: > If you could, please "chmod +s /usr/bin/strace" and then run strace > pulseaudio again and send me the output. This time it should also behave as > it does when you start pulseaudio normally. Don't forget to set it back with > "chmod -s /u

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-09 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:05:47PM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote: > Output of 'ulimit -a' The ulimit output looks pretty normal to me. I think the strace output is wrong though. Because the strace binary is not suid root like the pulseaudio binary, "strace pulseaudio" is not running with root privil

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-09 Thread Zoho Vignochi
On Tue, 2007-09-01 at 23:55 +0100, CJ van den Berg wrote: > The only other thing I can think of then are ulimits. What is the output of > "ulimit -a"? Output of 'ulimit -a' core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited max nice(-e) 0

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-09 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:50:18PM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-01 at 21:39 +0100, CJ van den Berg wrote: > > Strange, it really should work then. Is there anything else special about > > your system that could prohibit applications from gaining realtime priority? > > SELinux perha

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-09 Thread Zoho Vignochi
On Tue, 2007-09-01 at 21:39 +0100, CJ van den Berg wrote: > Strange, it really should work then. Is there anything else special about > your system that could prohibit applications from gaining realtime priority? > SELinux perhaps, or some other unusual restrictions? Sort of. I boot my kernel with

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-09 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:19:33PM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote: > Ouuput of 'ls -l /usr/bin/pulseaudio' is: > > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 39268 2006-11-21 09:40 /usr/bin/pulseaudio Strange, it really should work then. Is there anything else special about your system that could prohibit applications f

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-09 Thread Zoho Vignochi
On Tue, 2007-09-01 at 17:34 +0100, CJ van den Berg wrote: > The fact that it works when running under strace must be some sort of side > effect of strace. > > [snip] > > > setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, -15) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) > > This looks like the actual problem. pulseaudio i

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-09 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:15:45PM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote: > Ok, if I start pulseaudio on the commandline as: > > 'pulseaudio &' > > The warning is issued and pulseaudio fails to start. If I use: I think the warning is not actually the reason it won't start. > 'strace pulseaudio 2> tmp' >

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-08 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:28:24AM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote: > following the instructions as per the README.Debian I added myself to > the group 'pulse-rt' and changed the setting in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf > to 'high-priority =1'. > > After logging out and then in again pulseaudio fails to sta

Bug#406042: pulseaudio: fails to start when user in is group 'pulse-rt'

2007-01-07 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.5-4 Severity: normal following the instructions as per the README.Debian I added myself to the group 'pulse-rt' and changed the setting in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to 'high-priority =1'. After logging out and then in again pulseaudio fails to start with a warning