OK, it seems I'm not done yet. After a reboot I don't get the warning in the console anymore. The core-util errors are gone, too. However I still get the
Jun 17 15:19:43 cimer pulseaudio[11929]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Jun 17 15:19:43 cimer pulseaudio[11932]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Jun 17 15:19:53 cimer pulseaudio[11947]: main.c: Root priviliges required. errors in /var/log/user.log For some strange reason, when I start "gedit" I get two copies of the message, but when I start "gterminal" I get only one. Strange. I think gedit might spawn two processes and kill one of them later. I don't know where to go next. Here's a bit more info: $ ps aux |grep pulse pulse 8526 0.8 0.3 7620 3252 ? S<s 15:11 0:05 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --daemonize --high-priority --log-target=syslog --disallow-module-loading=0 $ groups pulse pulse : pulse audio pulse-rt $ ls -l /usr/bin/pulseaudio -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 35552 2007-05-29 04:43 /usr/bin/pulseaudio $ groups bogdanb bogdanb : bogdanb [...] audio [...] admin [...] pulse pulse-access pulse-rt So as far as I can tell I'm in all the relevant groups, pulseaudio is in all the relevant groups and the binary is suid root. What am I missing? -- pulseaudio fills logs with "Root privileges required" messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95513 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
