[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse audio and NFS home directories.

[Jason Taylor]

shouldn't the directory be ~/.config/pulseaudio now ?

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html


2009/5/14 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>

> On Wed, 13.05.09 11:57, mike _ (arizonagroovejet at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> >
> > 2009/5/9 mike _ <arizonagroovejet at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > I'm not in a position to try the python you posted until Monday but
> > > I'll try it both on a file that is several megabytes in an NFS home
> > > directory and one of the much smaller files on the local disk and post
> > > the results.
> >
> > I've tried the Python you suggested on both a file in an NFS mounted
> > home directory and a home directory on the local disk. In both cases I
> > got the error 'resource temporarily unavailable' but when I copied the
> > files in to /tmp and used the Python on them it worked.
> > For both files the result was the same:
>
> That error is probably due to the bsd locking gdbm does by default. We
> disable that, and so should you when you access those files via
> python. I.e. pass "u" in the mode string to gdbm.open().
>
> > Yep, 3.1M. So it seems that file size discrepancies are not  caused by
> > pulseaudio but by gdbm. Or by gdbm+NFS. Or gdbm+NFS+the file system in
> > use. Or something. Not pulseaudio anyway.
>
> I have now reproduced this here. A trivial gdbm file is 13k in side
> when written directly. 769k when written via nfs on the same
> location. Weird shit.
>
> gdbm should probably be considered obsolete and this is just another
> indication that there is every reason to consider it so.
>
> There have been plans to abstract the db interfacing in pa as a new
> pa_database API. We probably should do that and then switch to tdb as
> default backend on Linux. Always happy to take patches.
>
> > That leaves the issue of pulseaudio not working and saying ""failed to
> > create secure directory: permission denied" when ~/.pulse is a symlink
> > to somewhere on the local harddisk. Anyone got any ideas on that?
>
> We want to make sure nobody can play games with us and redirect
> ~/.pulse to some unsafe location. We hence verify that ~/.pulse is a
> proper directory.
>
> Lennart
>
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