Originally, after installation, I was unable to run amSynth as an ordinary user. However, it worked ok when ran as root. After some googling about I found out that the current kernels doesn't allow running binaries with setuid root. The permissions of the actual amSynth binary, /usr/libexec/amSynth.bin, are set to 6711 (-rws--s--x). I followed the advice found on http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2005-February/008221.html and chmodded the binary to 755. After that I was able to run amSynth as my humble self without any problems, and according to the mentioned post, there seems to be no performance loss. Maybe the amSynth.bin permissions should be set to 755 as default, instead of 6711? At least it would save new users a lot of head-scratching :) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" LANG="fi_FI.ISO-8859-1" LINGUAS="fi" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp cdr crypt cups curl dga divx4linux dv dvd dvdread emboss encode esd fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gnustep gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib jack java jpeg kde ladcca lcms libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nodrm nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba scanner sdl slang sndfile speex ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs xine xinerama xml xml2 xv xvmc zlib linguas_fi userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81576 ***
