On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 20:09:21 -0600
"Matthew D. Fuller" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 03:13:16PM +0100 I heard the voice of
> Maurizio Dall'Acqua, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > I would like to know if there's someone willing to help me solve the
> > problem that I have with rplay.
> 
> I suspect rplay expertise is pretty thin; it's largely a pretty
> historical bit of software at this point[0].  The latest release of it
> is from 1999.  The ctwm patches to use it came in 3.1 which was more
> than 20 years ago, and haven't been meaningfully touched since.
> 
> But, you can start with testing with rplay(1).  That'll at least tell
> you if your rplayd(8) config is working.  Possible a firewall could be
> blocking it, though I wouldn't expect to find such on localhost (and
> while rplay's big feature is running over the network, how many people
> are running their WM remotely as SOP?).
> 
> rplayd does have a big pile of options; it's not clear how many of
> them it only needs in special circumstances.  If it turns out not to
> be working, it does appear to have a --debug mode that might point you
> in the right direction.
> 
> 
> 
> [0] Of course, some would say the same about ctwm...   but this is our
>     playground, so we wouldn't stand for that   :)
> 
> 

In my installation rplay can't play any sounds. This is because rplayd
isn't properly configured. When I run rplayd I get this error message:

rplayd: bind: Address already in use

I don't think this error is due to the firewall. Moreover, I have
launched rplayd with debug option and only two more clues are given.
That is :

rplayd: running as group audio (29)
rplayd: running as user nobody (65534)

and if I change group and user the result is always the
address-already-in-use error message.

Has anybody any clues on this?

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