SLVoice Priority Change Crash to Desktop

There seems to be an issue where the first time you try to log in to Secondlife, the voice client starts no matter what you've set in preferences. If I'm not running it as root, the client crashes to desktop when it attempts to change the priority on the slvoice process. I have to sudo run the client once so it has permission to change the priority on slvoice, which gets me in to SL, then I can disable voice, and there after I don't have to sudo anymore.

I'm not all that adept at linux. Has anyone else seen this issue, or could someone see if they can reproduce?

I never saw this. Looks like your SLVoice binary is owned by root and not executable by other users. The first might be the case if you unpacked the downloaded tarball as root instead of your daily work user. Though I can't imagine how you might have it got unexecutable by others.

I might be completely wrong, so can you post the output of

ls -l SLVoice

when executed from the directory from which you run secondlife?