[4827] in testers
Re: 9.0.6: Sound-related issues [enter 9.0.7]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Mon Jun 18 10:23:13 2001
Message-Id: <200106181423.KAA03541@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Message from "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
received Mon, 18 Jun 2001 01:01:43 -0400
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:23:07 -0400
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
Yep, removing the stale dir clears it up; should something be doing that
automatically, or do the recent patches make it unnecessary? It had:
athena% ls -l /tmp/.esd
total 0
srwxrwxrwx 1 651 mit 0 Apr 30 09:35 socket
(which was actually when it was in limbo between bleeding 8.4
and 9.0)
>
>Hmm. Perhaps this was merely a symptom of a stale /tmp/.esd entry
>from a 9.0.6 login? I would try deleting that directory and then see
>if it happens again.
>
>> I saw it just now on n42-253-1:
>>
>> 17:06 Athena Workstation (linux) Version 9.0.7 Wed Jun 13 18:33:36 EDT 2001
>> 17:06
>> 17:06 92% of the disk quota on /mit/eclass1 has been used.
>> 17:06 xsession: Running standard xsession with NO user configuration files..
>.
>> 17:06 Setting up environment...
>> 17:06 Initializing settings...
>> 17:06 esd: Failed to fix owner of /tmp/.esd.
>> 17:06 Try -trust to force esd to start.
>> 17:06 esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket:
>> 17:06 /tmp/.esd/socket
>> 17:06 The socket is not accessible by esd.
>> 17:06 Exiting...
