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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 20.11.07 15:36, Jon Smirl (jonsmirl at gmail.com) wrote:

> > > 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.

I wouldn't want to speculate about this.

AFAIK the Debian packages do the right thing an run as session
daemmon. I am a bit surprised that on you machine this is not the case
and you claim you didn't touch this.

Sjoerd, Neurocyte, do you know anything about this?

> > 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.

Sorry, I have no Ubuntu around, and no plans to install it. I am busy
enough looking after Fedora ;-)

Lennart

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