I am trying to set Digital's multimedia service on an AlphaStation 400
4/233 running Digital UNIX V3.2C (Rev. 148).
As I understand from the manual page, I need to start the multimedia
server as root by the command
/sbin/init.d/mmeserver start
and be able to run `alphavcr' and other multimedia programs.
This process works, when I have the root privileges. However, as a
user when I start the alphavcr program, I get the error:
ThreadInit: Pthread_create failure: Not owner
during the selection of a mpeg file. From this error message, I
couldn't figure out what type of ownership I need to have in order to
create the necessary thread. It seems like the users have the read
privileges for all the files I can imagine.
The possible error conditions listed for the `pthread_create' routine
are lack of resources and lack of memory. Since, it works for the root
account, I ruled out the lack of memory error. I am unclear about the
resources that this routine needs.
Any suggestions to solve this ownership problem would be greatly
appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Levent Acar --- acar_at_ee.umr.edu
Received on Fri Aug 23 1996 - 00:14:49 NZST