shouldn't the directory be ~/.config/pulseaudio now ? http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html 2009/5/14 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> > On Wed, 13.05.09 11:57, mike _ (arizonagroovejet at gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > 2009/5/9 mike _ <arizonagroovejet at gmail.com>: > > > > > > I'm not in a position to try the python you posted until Monday but > > > I'll try it both on a file that is several megabytes in an NFS home > > > directory and one of the much smaller files on the local disk and post > > > the results. > > > > I've tried the Python you suggested on both a file in an NFS mounted > > home directory and a home directory on the local disk. In both cases I > > got the error 'resource temporarily unavailable' but when I copied the > > files in to /tmp and used the Python on them it worked. > > For both files the result was the same: > > That error is probably due to the bsd locking gdbm does by default. We > disable that, and so should you when you access those files via > python. I.e. pass "u" in the mode string to gdbm.open(). > > > Yep, 3.1M. So it seems that file size discrepancies are not caused by > > pulseaudio but by gdbm. Or by gdbm+NFS. Or gdbm+NFS+the file system in > > use. Or something. Not pulseaudio anyway. > > I have now reproduced this here. A trivial gdbm file is 13k in side > when written directly. 769k when written via nfs on the same > location. Weird shit. > > gdbm should probably be considered obsolete and this is just another > indication that there is every reason to consider it so. > > There have been plans to abstract the db interfacing in pa as a new > pa_database API. We probably should do that and then switch to tdb as > default backend on Linux. Always happy to take patches. > > > That leaves the issue of pulseaudio not working and saying ""failed to > > create secure directory: permission denied" when ~/.pulse is a symlink > > to somewhere on the local harddisk. Anyone got any ideas on that? > > We want to make sure nobody can play games with us and redirect > ~/.pulse to some unsafe location. We hence verify that ~/.pulse is a > proper directory. > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -- "A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day." - Calven -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20090514/00d495eb/attachment.htm>
