hal 0.5.0 "The family had a lot of buffers." release

Matthew Burgess matthew at linuxfromscratch.org
Wed Mar 9 12:44:47 PST 2005


David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:22 +0000, Matthew Burgess wrote:
> 
>>bind(7, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=6485, groups=ffffffff}, 12) = -1 
>>EPERM (Operation not permitted)
> 
> 
> Are you running this as root? You need to start hald as root [1].

Yes, running as root.  I tried running as non-root just to see what 
would happen and I get a completely different message, though at least 
this is understandable given your last reply :) :

20:42:29.856 [E] hald.c:309: drop_privileges: could not initialize groups

Thanks,

Matt.
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