Re: gmc + other weirdness

["Michael A. Peters" <mpeters mac com>]

>  > Howdy. Hoping someone knows what's going on-
>  >
>  > I've installed gnome from the source- works very well when logged 
>in as root, but not so well as a user.
>  >
>  > When logged in as a user, gmc gives continual warnings that the 
>SaveYourselfCommand is not responding. I
>  > can't log out of gnome and go back to X (except force quitting 
>via control-command-delete) and sound is
>  > non existant. When I try to open the sound mixer, it says no 
>mixer can be found.
>  >
>
>[...]
>
>just an idea, check the permissions on /dev/dsp, I have seen GNOME
>programs complaining about being unable to open /dev/dsp.
>
>
>
>$ ll /dev/dsp
>crw-------    1 gnu      sys       14,   3 Apr 17  1999 /dev/dsp
>

Here it is:

crw--------	1 507	mail	14,	3 Apr 17 199 /dev/dsp
crw--------	1 507	mail	14,	19 Apr 17 1999 /dev/dsp1

That may be the problem- I have no user with a UID though I do have a 
group mail

I'll look on my Red Hat box on work on monday (really nice- Sun 
Ultra1, though I'm not too fond of Red Hat...) and figure out a 
proper user/group scheme for gnome on my  LFS system at home.

I know how this happened. I built my home system all from source, but 
it would have been very tedious to remake every fricken node for 
every device, so I copied the entire /dev directory from the previous 
system.

Thanks! I think fixing that will get it all worked out.



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