sound server problem

[subnet_rx]

When I boot up KDE as root it's fine, but when I boot up as a user, I get "Sound server initilization failed, /tmp/mcop-user not owned by user" I have sound in XMMS but the KDE sounds don't work which doesn't bother me, but the error does.

I see the folder, I just don't know of it's safe to delete it so I can now own it. Or how could I own this folder? I've made it world writable, 777, with still no luck.

[mrBen]

By changing the permissions all you have done is define what the different people can do with it, not who owns it. ie owner, group and everyone can all read/write/execute, but root still owns it. You need to change the owner to your username......but I can't remember how :(

[After such a promising start......]

[LinuxAnt]

to change ownership of a file/folder
use the "chown" command, in your case as root

-->su -c "chown yourusername.anygroup filename"
Password:<your root password here>
-->
the "su -c" executes the command in quotes as root without having to su to root, execute the command and exit.
Hope this helps.