Grip

[David A. Bandel]

On 21 Mar 2002 22:11:00 -0800
begin  Iraj Medifar <irajmedifar at peoplepc.com> spewed forth:

> On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 04:25, David A. Bandel wrote:
> > On 19 Mar 2002 22:16:09 -0800
> > begin  Iraj Medifar <irajmedifar at peoplepc.com> spewed forth:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > > > 
> > > Thanks. I did and here's what I got:
> > > 
> > > esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777.
> > > Try -trust to force esd to start.
> > > esd: Esound daemon unable to create unix domain socket:
> > > /tmp/.esd/socket
> > > The socket is not accessible by esd.
> > > Exiting ...
> > > 
> > > Well, is there a plain newbie translation of this?
> > 
> > Must be _lots_ of stuff on your system broken.  Users can't log in,
> > etc.
> > 
> > Do this as root:
> > chmod 1777 /tmp
> > 
> > then try again and post any errors.
> > 
> > Ciao,
> > 
> > David A. Bandel
> > -- 
> > 
> Thanks for the suggestion. Tried and here's what I got:
> 
> esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777.
> Try -trust to force esd to start.
> esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket:
> The socket is not accessible by esd.
> Exiting...
> 
> Practically the same message as before. By the way, the system doesn't
> appear to be broken at all. Users do log in and do anything they want
> and don't complain about anything. Grip is the only apparent problem.

Then you have in /tmp a file or directory called .esd.  Delete that and
try again.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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