Sean McNamara wrote: > /var/run is cleared every time you reboot. There seems to be a 0.9.11 > bug with the system-wide daemon improperly creating /var/run/pulse. It > may be creating it before it changes user, which means it is owned by > root, which is basically shooting itself in the foot. What I do on > boot-up (once per reboot) is this: I wonder if this could be a similar cause to a bug I helped trace: http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/315 That was creating /.pulse folders but the cause of it could be the same... (note that I'm not actually sure as I didn't reread the bug - just going on memeory... I think I was waiting for Lennart's thoughts on it). Col