On 20 Jan 2002 14:47:27 +1000, Charles Darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 16:41, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > On 19 Jan 2002 14:33:45 +1000, Charles Darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 22:35, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Try running GNOME as root. If sound works properly there, then we have a
> > > > permissions problem. Load userdrake (as root) and add your username to
> > > > the'audio' group.
> > > >
> > >
> > > No Gnome sounds as 'root' either, I'm afraid.
> >
> > Have you configured a Bastille firewall recently? I once had a problem with
> > sound in GNOME and I managed to trace it back to my Bastille settings.
> >
>
> I set up a Bastille firewall soon after I installed LM8.1, and since
> I have never heard any Gnome sounds, this may well be the cause.
>
> In fact, after I had started 'esd' as a background process from a
> terminal, a little while later the terminal displayed some sort of error
> message about Bastille and a 'tmp' directory. Bastille has an option to
> guard against abuse of the 'tmp' directory, which I enabled when I
> configured Bastille. Do you think this might be the problem ? If not, do
> you recall which Bastille setting gave you trouble ?
IIRC, there is a question in the Interactive Bastille setup that says "Would you
like to set a default-deny on TCP Wrappers and xinetd?" Set this to 'No'.
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