Re: root wierdness

[Mike Palczewski <mpalczew w-link net>]

This is because it can't connect to esound.

kill esd as root run it as someone else.
or use esdctl to disable access control.

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Dean Elhard wrote:

> I am getting the following strange behaviour:
>   - I log in and run gnome, but many applications such as gedit and
>     gnome-terminal die whenever anything is selected from a menu,
>     reporting a broken pipe. Other than that they seem to work fine.
>   
>   - When I log in as root, this doesn;t happen.
> 
> I ran strace on gnome-terminal, the last thing in the trace is a
> failed write of the string "gtk-events/activate\0\0\0\0..." 128
> bytes long to file descriptor 3 which seems to be a socket connected
> to port 5001.  Immediately before the failed write was a successfull
> write to the same file descriptor of the 4 bytes "\16\0\0\0"
> 
> I didn't have this behaviour before I re-built all of the RPMs from
> the tarballs, so it seems likely that something there is screwed up,
> but I haven't been able to find anything which should be affected by
> the root access, or that has changed from the previous RPMs.
> 
> Does this behaviour ring any bells for anyone?
> 
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