[pulseaudio-discuss] Root ownership on /tmp/pulse-$USER (a warning to packagers)

[Matthew Patterson]

I have noticed this behavior on occasion as well. It has caused far too 
many "sudo killall -9 pulseaudio" calls!

On my system I always know because it warns about being unable to access 
my output device and then fails to run.

Which distrib's are you packaging for again?

Matt



CJ van den Berg wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:18:46AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>   
>> Anyway, to cut a long story short, I eventually found that it was
>> actually libesound that was starting this process. If you run an
>> application as root (e.g. firestarter - a gtk firewall thingy) that used
>> libesound it would go through some code that checked for the existence
>> of /etc/esd.conf. If this file did not exist, the bahaviour is such that
>> the library will try to *autospawn "esd" by default*. This is in
>> contrast to the default esd.conf shipped with esound which has
>> auto_spawn=0 specified in it. Go figure!
>>
>> So to fix this problem I simply ship an /etc/esd.conf with the
>> pulseaudio-esound-compat package. The alternative is to patch libesound
>> to not do the auto spawn by default thing but this seemed cleaner.
>>
>> I hope this helps someone not go insane as I nearly did :)
>>     
>
> Very good-to-know info. Thanks for saving us from taking the same
> horrible journey! :-D
>
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