xmms only runs as root?

SRC_DoD · Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 172

i emerged xmms. shows up in my gnome menu...if i click it nothing happens, but it will be running as a process. if i go into a command prompt and run it there as a normal user, same thing. su into root, and it runs like a charm

any ideas why?

frido · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 40

You have to add your user to audio group

SRC_DoD · Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 172

already in audio group

lxg · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject:

Is this reproducible with other apps that use audio? amarok, mplayer, xine/totem etc.?
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vinky · Apprentice Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 214 Location: Sweden

starting it from a konsole as user should give you some errormessage which might help you
else post it here

SRC_DoD · Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 172

nope, i run nit and it runs as a process, sleeping. if i ctrl+c i get

GLib-CRITICAL **: file gmain.c: line 500 (g_source_remove): assertion `tag > 0' failed.

Segmentation fault

You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit
http://bugs.xmms.org and fill out a bug report.

grofaz · Guru Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 319

I can't get the blasted thing running either.

It won't mount the cdrom. I get this error message when I try to manually mount the cdrom.

mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock

gnome cd player works fine, mounts cdrom automatically, but xmms just sits there. I emerged xmcd which pulled in xmms. Fine. What I want is a decent cd ripper. Any suggestions ??

grofaz...out

lxg · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject:

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lxg · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject:

Err, Grip is a ripping app... it rips and encodes audio files. But that doesn't require the ability to play audio data.

As for the sound problem, what does xmms say when you start it from cmdline as user?
Could you possibly try to play audio files with a cmdline tool like aplay (.wav) or mpg321 (.mp3) as user?
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grofaz · Guru Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 319

lxg · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:04 am Post subject:

@grofaz:

Exuse me, I'm still a bit confused about your prob: Is it a sound or a device problem you have? Why do you always say: "/mnt/cdrom"? This is merely a mount point, the device itself should be /dev/cdrom or something like /dev/hdX. Could you possibly post your /etc/fstab here?
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grofaz · Guru Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 319

lxg · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject:

Congratulations. :-)

(Couldn't be bad to add something like [solved] to the topic.)
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grofaz · Guru Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 319

lxg · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject:

Oh right, I didn't realize that. Sorry.
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