[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #368: PulseAudio Fails To Start, Intermittently

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#368: PulseAudio Fails To Start, Intermittently
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  Reporter:  midair5  |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:         
 Component:  daemon   |    Severity:  normal 
Resolution:           |    Keywords:         
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Comment (by coling):

 Hi Mike, when posting snippets of plain text, can you use Trac
 WikiFormatting to include it as it's nigh on impossible to read it if you
 don't, basically for a plain text block, you put three braces { on a new
 line then close your block with three closing braces on it's own line. You
 can use the Preview button to see what your post will look like.

 OK, that asside, check the permissions on /tmp/pulse-$USER folder (ls -ld
 /tmp/pulse-$USER). If that folder is owned by root, simply remove the
 whole folder and let pulse recreate it when it starts. There are some
 weird esd related autospawning options that can affect the permissions
 this folder is created with unless an /etc/esd.conf file is shipped in
 pulseaudio. I'm not a fedora user, but I notice that the fedora pulseaudio
 spec does not ship an esd.conf file: Lennart, perhaps you should ship
 this? I posted a looooong explanation some time back on the ML about it...
 of course fedora may ship this config file in a different package or hack
 the libesd library not to autospawn if the config file is missing... I've
 not looked '''that''' indepth!).

 The other potential problem is that your /tmp filesystem does not support
 permissions. If this is the case you really ought to fix it!

 HTHs

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