On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Glenn Golden <gdg at zplane.com> wrote: > A side issue that I came across, related to the --check option, but not the > doc issue itself: > > Suppose the root user wishes to use the --check option to see if user xyz > has a PA daemon running. He does this: > > # XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1234 pulseaudio --check -v > > which dutifully reports (correctly) that "Daemon running as PID xxx". But > it also has the silent side effect that the directory /run/user/1234/pulse is > chowned to root.root, thus preventing user xyz from further communication > with the daemon due to accesss permission violation. > > Two questions: > > * Can you reproduce this? I haven't had a chance to try to reproduce it yet, but this sounds a lot like https://bugs.debian.org/758272 > * What is your view as to whether this is a bug? (IMO it is, and was going > to report it, but wanted to hear your view.) I think it is. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
