On Sat, 26.07.08 14:28, Sean McNamara (smcnam at gmail.com) 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. hmm, are you sure? Unless you use --start in conjunction with system mode no directory should be created before we drop privs. (I now added some explicit code in 0b428e7 disallow --start in system mode.) Could you please do an "strace -f" of this? This really shouldn't be happening. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4