Crikey, that's a dramatic solution!
strace is certainly available for FC7: yum install strace
Did you mention it was on Fedora before? If I'd noticed
I would have suggested you check the selinux log.
selinux failures also put up a warning on the gui (you
might need particular rpms installed)
Matt
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:12:44AM +0800, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> I've dodged it all and installed Etch.
>
> strace wasn't in my FC7 but it is in Etch. strace'ing on xmms
> in FC7
> resulted in a steady stream of data - 2 or 3 lines a second - it
> would
> have to be carefully grepped to see anything useful.
>
> Etch doesn't install xmms by default but Rythymbox works (it
> didn't in
> FC)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kevin.
> Forwarded Message
> > From: Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Slug
> > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]
> > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:00:46 +
> >
> > On 20/09/2007, Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
> > > adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've
> > > applied a solution without knowing what the problem was. Any clues as
> > > to how to identify the problem?
> >
> >
> > strace xmms... and look for failed system calls, probably involving files
> > under /dev.
> >
> > read strace(1), there are many ways to make its output more readable and
> > useful.
> >
> > --Amos
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