On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 17:37 +0800, Hikaru Amano wrote: > if the pulseaudio daemon crashed, it doesnt restart itself .. and it > need to be manually restarted ... It would be nice to have it restarts > after crash because normal users wont know how to restart it .. It's not a bug that it doesn't restart. Many services don't do so. Respawning a dying daemon is not a good idea, because in case of exploitation of a security issues, it would effectively defeat randomization giving the attacker more tries, etc. etc. The real problem is the crash. Do you have a core dump? Or at least relevant lines from the log file? Are you able to reproduce the problem? Please do file a bug in case you do/are. > plus .. if the folder /tmp/pulse-username exist, pulseaudio refuses to > start and returns > > E: pid.c: Daemon already running. > E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. > > but the daemon is not running so I had to delete the folder manually .. This is the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299131 I somehow had to delete that directory manually also, though I don't remember the actual setting anymore. Probably it is derived from $USER rather than from the effective id and gets created when you start the daemon as another user or whatever. It is also a (though pretty low severity) denial of service condition. > -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
