zinf only runs when I'm su

[eyevee99]

Ijust emerged zinf, and it will only run if I log in as su at the command prompt and type zinf.

If I try to run zinf as my normal user, Sys Monitor says it's running, but Zinf never appears on screen.

Cheers,
Ryan

[puddpunk]

ooh, thats a rather nasty bug...

can you try running zinf from a console as a normal user? (I assume your X session belongs to your user).

Try checking your sound device permissions, try adding yourself to the "audio" group.

[pjp]

Interesting... I've not had any problems like this. What does ps -ef |grep zinf report before you try and start it as a user?
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[eyevee99]

Running as a user from the console has the same problem.

The results of ps -ef|grep zinf are (while logged in as su):

[pjp]

What are the permissions on the zinf program? ls -l $(which zinf)
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[eyevee99]

These are the permissions on zinf

[Kabuto]

Sounds like you don't have users rights to /dev/dsp. Add yourself to the audio group. Zinf might be trying to open the audio device and hanging because of permissions and that is why it works as root.

[eyevee99]

I added my user to the audio group, in /etc/groups, alas to no avail.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.

[pjp]

Are you starting Zinf from a commandline? If not, does doing so produce any error messages?
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[eyevee99]

You'll never guess...

I just deleted my preferences again. And now it works. doh!


Thanks all for helping

:)