Dear PulseAudio folks,
using Debian Sid/unstable with package pulseaudio 2.0-6, the first time
I am having the problem, that sound application like `mplayer
somefile.ogg` or `pulseaudio --check` do not start up and just hang.
Looking into this and with `strace`, which can also attach to running
processes, I see the following endless times.
readlink("/home/joey/.pulse/1572dc2ca76ca04c3351599547f539a6-runtime", "/tmp/pulse-aFhIgB9UxJ93"..., 99) = 23
lstat64("/tmp/pulse-aFhIgB9UxJ93", 0xbfe92e60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
umask(077) = 022
mkdir("/tmp/pulse-fe0Ip5fRyI5a", 0700) = 0
umask(022) = 077
symlink("/tmp/pulse-fe0Ip5fRyI5a", "/home/joey/.pulse/1572dc2ca76ca04c3351599547f539a6-runtime.tmp") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
rmdir("/tmp/pulse-fe0Ip5fRyI5a") = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
readlink("/home/joey/.pulse/1572dc2ca76ca04c3351599547f539a6-runtime", "/tmp/pulse-aFhIgB9UxJ93"..., 99) = 23
lstat64("/tmp/pulse-aFhIgB9UxJ93", 0xbfe92e60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
umask(077) = 022
mkdir("/tmp/pulse-ubE5cvpBca5R", 0700) = 0
umask(022) = 077
symlink("/tmp/pulse-ubE5cvpBca5R", "/home/joey/.pulse/1572dc2ca76ca04c3351599547f539a6-runtime.tmp") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
rmdir("/tmp/pulse-ubE5cvpBca5R") = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
Analyzing that symbolic link, I see the following.
$ ls -l ~/.pulse/1572dc2ca76ca04c3351599547f539a6-runtime*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joey joey 23 Dez 19 11:49 1572dc2ca76ca04c3351599547f539a6-runtime -> /tmp/pulse-aFhIgB9UxJ93
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joey joey 23 Dez 20 14:33 1572dc2ca76ca04c3351599547f539a6-runtime.tmp -> /tmp/pulse-2L9K88eMlGn7
But both directories are not available under `/tmp`! Looking at the
dates, it looks quite strange, that the temporary directories should
survive restarts. And the system was restarted several times in between.
I am not sure what caused this and when the symbolic link is supposed to
be deleted.
The solution then was to delete the symbolic link.
$ rm ~/.pulse/1572dc2ca76ca04c3351599547f539a6-runtime
Is that a known problem? Please advise on how to proceed.
Thanks,
Paul
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