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 <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:00:46 +0000
>
> 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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