Reply To: Roku M1001 wont play flac from NSLU2 firefly 1696

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rsl360
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@aldus wrote:

now working. Not entirely sure what fixed it in the end. Suspect some problems with permissions for the runas user (guest in my case)

try

chmod 666 /dev/null

I recently build a new system, NSLU2 with 6.10 unslung, and it also would not do any transcoding. /dev/null permissions was the problem. (it was originally non-writable) The log files did not indicate that this was the problem. Seems like this could be a seriously annoying problem.

What’s the point in a non-writable /dev/null?