On Thu, 10.01.08 22:26, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) 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.... Hmm, sounds like an evil messup with autospawn done from SUID programs or more likely those started via "su". Will look into this eventually, before I do the next release. I am not sure why people would start audio applications as root anyway. People doing stuff like that deserve to be annoyed by issues like this one ;-) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
