2nd user logging in has no ability to use mplayer
well, this is probably the same issue I had before, but a different application. My wife rebooted my PC and when she logs in first, I am not able to do things, without being root. Before it was burning CD's, now it is using mplayer. the screen pops up, then disappears. I can drop to a konsole, su to root, run mplayer and that works, but not as a user. I know if I reboot and log in first, the issue will disappear. Is there some master file that stops the 2nd user logging in from running things???? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc
On 6/22/05, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot@pcartwright.com> wrote:
well, this is probably the same issue I had before, but a different application. My wife rebooted my PC and when she logs in first, I am not able to do things, without being root. Before it was burning CD's, now it is using mplayer. the screen pops up, then disappears. I can drop to a konsole, su to root, run mplayer and that works, but not as a user. I know if I reboot and log in first, the issue will disappear. Is there some master file that stops the 2nd user logging in from running things????
-- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc
If you start mplayer from a console, most probably you will see that it fails because it can not get access to the sound device. The first user logged in gets the rights. There were some discussions in the list about how to set the permissions of the devices, when a user logs in. Sunny
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:12, Paul Cartwright wrote:
well, this is probably the same issue I had before, but a different application. My wife rebooted my PC and when she logs in first, I am not able to do things, without being root. Before it was burning CD's, now it is using mplayer. the screen pops up, then disappears. I can drop to a konsole, su to root, run mplayer and that works, but not as a user. I know if I reboot and log in first, the issue will disappear. Is there some master file that stops the 2nd user logging in from running things????
I had this problem and took this advice from Anders J. edit /etc/resmgr.conf ------------- # # This rule grants access to users logged in locally # #allow desktop tty=/dev/tty[1-9]* || tty=tty[1-9]* || tty=:0 allow desktop tty=/dev/tty[1-9]* || tty=tty[1-9]* || tty=:[0-9] -------------- the hashed line directly above is the original, the change is directly below it. ------------ delineates the section from th4e file.
On Thu June 23 2005 5:53 am, Mike McMullin wrote:
Is there some master file that stops the 2nd user logging in from running things????
I had this problem and took this advice from Anders J.
edit /etc/resmgr.conf ------------- I had also done that already, this is a different problem. I THOUGHT it was still the second user logging in, having a problem running an application, but it seems to be something different this time. Now I can run mplayer as root, and from the command-line, but double-clicking a file in konqeror crashes mplayer.
-- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc
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