[pulseaudio-discuss] pstream.c: Failed to import memory block.

[Jon Smirl]

On 11/20/07, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 20.11.07 13:48, Jon Smirl (jonsmirl at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > > What are the access modes of the pulse files in /dev/shm?
> >
> > jonsmirl at terra:/dev/shm$ ls -la
> > total 8
> > drwxrwxrwt  2 root  root       60 2007-11-20 13:39 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 12 root  root    14740 2007-11-20 09:07 ..
> > -r--------  1 pulse pulse 2097152 2007-11-20 13:39 pulse-shm-4056509080
> > jonsmirl at terra:/dev/shm$
>
> Ah, so you are running PA as system-wide daemon? Please don't do that
> unless you really know what you do.

I just have the standard Ubuntu package installed. I would suppose
that whoever made it knew what they were doing.

> PA makes SHM segments only accessible to users with identical user
> ids. Apparently in your case you coppied the auth cookie to all your
> users, or disabled auth entirely -- however the SHM segment is still
> not accessible to normal users.

I didn't do anything special on Ubuntu, I'm just using auth in it's
default config.


> You probably hit this bug:
>
> http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/95
>
> You can fix this, by disabling SHM data access in daemon.conf. The fix
> for #95 will do just that anyway.

It may be worth checking things out on Ubuntu. The default Ubuntu
config may be different than Fedora and it is causing errors for
pulse.


> > I've filed some bugs in trac about USB audio on pulse. You said they
> > were HAL problems, have the HAL developers been nagged
> > appropriately?
>
> Hmm? USB? Did I miss something?

http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/110

>
> Lennart
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