Hello,

I'm running Debian sid, with latest gnome-session, gnome-desktop-environment.
When I launch Gnome with one user, the sound is here, it's fine,
but when I loggout and the other user logs in, no sound!

Here is .xsession-errors: "

% cat .xsession-errors
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -
u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "sylvain"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/totoro:/tmp/.ICE-unix/10909
esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket
/tmp/.esd/socket
This socket already exists indicating esd is already running.
"

Has anyone got this problem? and solved it maybe?
Any ideas?

Cheers,
Sylvain.

are those users members of the audio group? What are the permissions of your /dev/dsp*?

I could be running you in the wrong direction, because I don't use gnome, but this is good information to have when dealing with sound problems.

Hello souljah and others,

Here is complementary info?

% ls -lisa /dev/dsp
12663 1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2004-02-16 21:24 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0
% ls -lisa /dev/dsp0
2274 0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2004-02-16 21:24 /dev/dsp0

% cat /etc/group | grep audio
audio:x:29:user1,user2
=> the 2 users, 'user1' and 'user2' belong to the 'audio' group.

Any solution for the problem I have (see description at the source of this post)?

=== Hypothesis:
In fact, I think what is happening is that when GNOME stops, in my current configuration, it doesn't stop the sound daemon (esd I think it is called) and hence the sound is not released for another user to use it in his turn...

Anyone knows which script should be modified? and how? Or maybe this is not the right explanation, any ideas/solution?

Cheers,
Sylvain.

I ran into a similar problem.

Ensuring that /etc/esound/esd.conf contained the following lines resolved the issue for me.

auto_spawn=1
spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 5
spawn_wait_ms=100

Hope this helps
jshannon

Hi jrshannon,

It works fine, thanks!

Sylvain.

There is a function in esdlib.c [is_host_local()], which is part of the esound suite, that will fail if the result of gethostname() is not equal to "localhost" or the HOST environment variable.

This is dangerous for folks that set their hostname in a startup (login) script or change it from a numeric IP to something else like I do in my environment.

Check to make sure that gethostbyname() returns the same string as echo $HOST otherwise gnome sounds will not work, but esdcat and esdplay will.

Go figure. Someone needs to do something more clever then this.

-Doug Durning

Hello Doug,


Are you saying that a user should not use the above config file?

Maybe you can post a short test program in C with instructions for compilation, so that anyone reading this post can check what you're talking about? And how to fix the problem? and what is the actual impact for a user?

Thanks in advance if you can make things clearer. So far I don't get the point.
Sylvain.

The configuration file indicated here is fine and as it should be. The problem is how the machine reolves a host name through DNS. For instance, if a machines IP is say 192.168.0.25 and a user's login script sets a HOST variable to "mypc25" instead of "localhost", then the function in esdlib.c will not view that as a local computer and will not generate sounds via the local hardware.

-Doug Durning