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 <[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 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
