On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > In reply to your question: > > root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa > root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root > drwx------ 15 gary gary 4096 Sep 3 18:21 /root
I do stand to be corrected, but I think that's the problem. I haven't yet come across a system where /root was owned by some user other than root. Try this: chown root.root /root and try starting alsa again. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130921231842.gc7...@gregn.net
