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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