[pulseaudio-discuss] --check option seems not to work from su(1) as daemon user

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 13:44 -0600, Glenn Golden wrote:
> Not sure if this is a bug or braindamage on my part. In view of the doc
> for the "--check" option, I was surprised at the following:
> 
> As ordinary user 'gdg' (under which PA daemon is running):
> 
>     $ id
>     uid=501(gdg) gid=501(gdg) groups=501(gdg),19(log),92(audio), \
> 	190(systemd-journal)
> 
>     $ pulseaudio -v --check
>     I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon running as PID 23204
> 
> But as root, do "su - gdg", then 
> 
>     $ id
>     uid=501(gdg) gid=501(gdg) groups=501(gdg),19(log),92(audio), \
> 	190(systemd-journal)
> 
>     $ pulseaudio -v --check
>     I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon not running
> 
> 
> Why?

Probably because $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR points to the other user's directory.
The --check option uses $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to figure out where to look for
the pid file.

-- 
Tanu