I'm trying to upgrade to FC11, which comes with pulseaudio 0.15 release. My environment is a little odd. I have a bunch of headless machines which share a diskless root file system mounted over NFS. Each machine has it's own /var directory, however, each var directory is created with a link, with another link to a common /var/lib directory (long story). Since these machines are headless, I need to run in system mode. It appears that pulseaudio doesn't like a link to /var/lib lroom# pulseaudio --system -v I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. W: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-exit not set! W: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-module-loading not set! N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode! N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling exit idle time! I: main.c: Found user 'pulse' (UID 515) and group 'pulse' (GID 515). I: main.c: Successfully dropped root privileges. I: main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.15 I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes I: main.c: Machine ID is lroom. I: main.c: Using runtime directory /var/run/pulse. E: core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory: Permission denied lroom# l /var/ total 72 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 22 2009 X11R6 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 26 2009 account drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Mar 4 08:13 cache drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 11:00 cvs drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 4 08:13 db drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 4 08:13 empty drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 4 08:13 games lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 30 14:45 lib -> ../root/var/lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 4 08:13 local drwxrwxr-x 5 root lock 4096 Mar 4 08:13 lock drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Aug 30 09:09 log lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 16:13 mail -> spool/mail drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 4 08:13 nis drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 4 08:13 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 4 08:13 preserve drwx------ 2 pulse pulse 4096 Aug 30 16:23 pulse drwxrwxrwx 28 root root 4096 Aug 30 16:02 run drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug 29 18:47 spool drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Aug 30 10:51 tmp drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 4 08:13 yp If I remove the lib -> ../root/var/lib and replace with a real directory, pulseaudio starts fine. I'm trying to get around this by using environment variables. I look at the source code, and determined this *should* work. lroom# env | grep pulse PULSE_STATE_PATH=/var/pulse/lroom PULSE_HOME=/var/pulse/lroom PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH=/var/pulse/lroom Running with these ENV variables, I get the same: lroom# env | grep pulse PULSE_STATE_PATH=/var/pulse/lroom PULSE_HOME=/var/pulse/lroom PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH=/var/pulse/lroom lroom# pulseaudio --system -v I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. W: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-exit not set! W: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-module-loading not set! N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode! N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling exit idle time! I: main.c: Found user 'pulse' (UID 515) and group 'pulse' (GID 515). I: main.c: Successfully dropped root privileges. I: main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.15 I: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes I: main.c: Machine ID is lroom. I: main.c: Using runtime directory /var/run/pulse. E: core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory: Permission denied Notice that the runtime directory didn't follow PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH. Do the ENV variables no longer work? Any ideas appreciated. Thanks, jim
