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

28 Sep 2005

I hope it get's through this time...

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:23:25PM +0200, Antonio wrote:
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  Hi to the list,

 I've a problem starting jackd from a a normal user. I'm on debian
 testing and even using non-realtime mode I got this message:

   $ jackd -dalsa
   jackd 0.100.0
   Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
   jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
   under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details

   JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
   cannot create /dev/shm/jack-1000 directory (Permission denied)

   cannot create server sockets
   cannot create engine
   $ _

Hello.

As Mark Knecht has already pointed out, this is a permission issue. I am
using Debian unstable (with udev) and for me it looks like this:

~: ls -lhd /dev/shm/
drwxrwxrwt  3 root root 60 2005-09-28 22:50 /dev/shm/

Eventually installing udev (apt-get install udev) will fix the problem.
Or you can simply set the permissions with chmod. 

Burkhard