PulseAudio

[Christopher "Monty" Montgomery]

On 2/27/07, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 13:02 -0500, Christopher "Monty" Montgomery wrote:
> > On 2/27/07, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > And finally, the big problem, an assert trying to play back some sound:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230211
> >
> > I believe this is SELinux refusing to grant sufficient shared memory
> > for Pulse to work.  It doesn't happen when run as root.
>
> I'm using SELinux in permissive mode, and don't see any errors
> in /var/log/messages relating to SELinux errors (some avc denied).

Then it is likely a security policy (PAM?) refusing to grant or
limiting memory access.  That's not to say that Pulse shouldn't be
doing a better job of trapping the error- it should.

In any case, I have seen that exact error on my own boxes, and it was
due to being refused access to shared mem.  Not definitive in your
case, just likely.

Monty