Colin Guthrie wrote: > Hi, > > http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=36643 > The above bug report highlights a sequence of events that cause the > /tmp/pulse-$USER folder to become owned by root. This results in $USER > being unable to play sound. > > Basically start pulse as $USER and check perms on /tmp/pulse-$USER > folder. su to root and start nautilus and permissions on > /tmp/pulse-$USER change to root. > > Not I've not yet been able to reproduce this myself but will try and > work out what's going on. > > Just thought I'd mention it here in case anyone else has had a similar > problem. > > I know we discussed on IRC about a problem where /tmp/pulse-$USER was > owned by root so I think there could be some milage in this principle > even if I can't replicate it yet.... OK I think I've replicated it. It seems to be related to autospawn. I've reported it as a bug: http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/215 Col
