[Pianod] Home directory not accessible: Permission denied

[Fritz Hildebrand]

Sorry for my ignorance on this, but what would I set the home directory to?



On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Perette Barella <perette at barella.org> wrote:

> Any chance you’ve got libao configured to use Pulse Audio as an output?
>  Instances of that particular message suggest it’s the likely culprit.
>
> If you are, then...
> I’m guessing that the libao/PA code tries to read a config file in the
> home directory when the audio device is opened (not at libao
> initialization)… and by then pianod has already dropped root privs.
>
> Maybe set the HOME environment variable (see Gary Koch’s post), make sure
> that directory is a+x so ‘nobody’ can access its files, and make sure the
> Pulse Audio config file (if it exists) is a+r so ‘nobody’ can read it.
>
> Perette
>
>
> On 2014年07月03日, at 20:20, Fritz Hildebrand <fritz.hildebrand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm running pianod-165 on a Raspberry Pi with Arch, and am getting the
> above message when starting pianod as root with systemctl. systemctl status
> pianod gives the following:
> >
> > * pianod.service - Pandora Client Daemon
> >    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/pianod.service; disabled)
> >    Active: active (running) since Fri 2014-07-04 12:00:31 NZST; 20s ago
> >  Main PID: 26018 (pianod)
> >    CGroup: /system.slice/pianod.service
> >            `-26018 /usr/local/bin/pianod -i /etc/pianod.startscript -u
> /etc/pianod.userfile -Z 0xfefd
> >
> > Jul 04 12:00:41 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:41: 132
> startscript selected the station: QuickMix
> > Jul 04 12:00:41 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:41: 200 Success
> > Jul 04 12:00:41 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:41: Retrieving
> new playlist
> > Jul 04 12:00:42 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:42: Server
> authentication ok
> > Jul 04 12:00:43 zenith pianod[26018]: Home directory not accessible:
> Permission denied
> > Jul 04 12:00:43 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:43: Server
> authentication ok
> > Jul 04 12:00:43 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:43: Server
> authentication ok
> > Jul 04 12:00:44 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:44: Server
> authentication ok
> > Jul 04 12:00:45 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:45: Server
> authentication ok
> > Jul 04 12:00:45 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:45: 132
> startscript has disconnected
> > It seems to start OK and play music, so that's good, but am wondering
> what is causing the permission denied error. If I start pianod with "-n
> root", this message does not appear.
> >
> > Any ideas of how to eliminate this message?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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