[linux-audio-user] can't start jackd from normal user

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki rzewnickie at rfa.org
Fri Sep 30 07:54:02 EDT 2005


On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:41:20PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 9/29/05, David <dplist at free.fr> wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:37:26 +0200
> > Antonio <debian at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> > > [OT]
> > > I don't have a devpts entry in fstab, should debian must have one?
> > > (infact I currently have to manually mount devpts to open a subshell,
> > > for example CRTL+O in mc).
> > > [/OT]
> > On my Debian testing, /dev/pts and /dev/shm are both mounted
> > by /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs, that is called during the single user part
> > of the boot sequence. No need for an fstab entry.
> > I don't know why it isn't so on your system.
> I don't know anything about Debian, but the fact that it's being
> mounted by mountvirtfs means that it's not 'automaticly done',
> correct? File systems can be mounted even if they aren't in fstab, but
> shm isn't done automatically as someone suggested earlier.

Correct, they're not automatically mounted by the kernel.

> Since my Gentoo systems don't have this mountvirtfs script it doesn't
> happen on my box.

grep -ri shm /etc/init.d/   ??

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