From: Easior <easior@tom.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with pulseaudio?
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:23:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obp3785i.fsf@Noah.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPrc80-pe0J9TrASrhoG=AAPiOKme=yOFoYywrrygT6fqtSKw@mail.gmail.com> ("Canek \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?Pel\=E1ez_Vald\=E9s\=22's\?\= message of "Thu, 31 May 2012 09:44:27 -0500")
>>>>> "CPV" == Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> writes:
CPV> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Easior <easior@tom.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> "CPV" == Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> CPV> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Easior <easior@tom.com>
CPV> wrote:
>> >>>>>>> "CPV" == Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> writes:
>> >>
>> >> CPV> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Easior
CPV> <easior@tom.com>
>> CPV> wrote:
>> >> >> Hi, all!
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I found that there were some strange files or
CPV> directories
>> CPV> under root
>> >> CPV> directory. Let's
>> >> >> see what happened?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> $ ls -a
>> >> >> . boot home media opt .pulse-cookie
CPV> sbin
>> CPV> usr
>> >> >> .. dev lib mnt proc root
CPV> sys
>> CPV> var
>> >> >> bin etc lost+found null .pulse run
CPV> tmp
>> >> >>
>> >> >> As to my experience, .pulse and .pulse-cookie should
CPV> be in
>> CPV> the $HOME
>> >> CPV> directory. How to
>> >> >> resovle this problem?
>> >>
>> >> CPV> Delete them. Look at the date, they probably got
CPV> created a
>> CPV> long time
>> >> CPV> ago under weird circumstances (perhaps booting using
CPV> a
>> CPV> livecd), and
>> >> CPV> they remained there.
>> >>
>> >> CPV> Just delete them.
>> >>
>> >> CPV> Regards.
>> >> CPV> --
>> >> CPV> Canek Peláez Valdés
>> >> CPV> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
>> >> CPV> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> I have tried to delete them. However, It didn't take any
CPV> effect.
>> >> They will apear again in that place every time the Gentoo is
CPV> booted.
>> >> As a fact, let's see:
>> >>
>> >> # ls -al .pulse*
>> >> -rw------- 1 root root 256 May 27 20:53 .pulse-cookie
>> >>
>> >> .pulse:
>> >> total 8
>> >> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 30 15:59 .
>> >> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 May 27 20:53 ..
>> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 May 30 15:59
>> CPV> ceba4124b7a0c408493ce5bb0000001e-runtime ->
>> >> /tmp/pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n
>> >>
>> >> what happened?
>>
>> CPV> I don't know. What desktop do you use? Do you run it as
CPV> root? What
>> CPV> version of PulseAudio do you have installed? Do you have
>> CPV> /etc/init.d/pulseaudio in any of your runlevels?
>>
>> I use Gnome 3 as my DE and also run it as normal user. I use
CPV> PulseAudio 2.0:
>>
>> $ eix media-sound/pulseaudio
>> [I] media-sound/pulseaudio
>> Available versions: 0.9.22 0.9.22-r2 (~)0.9.23-r1 (~)1.1 1.1-r1
CPV> (~)2.0 **9999 {{+X +alsa +asyncns avahi bluetooth +caps dbus doc
CPV> equalizer +gdbm +glib gnome ipv6 jack libsamplerate lirc +orc oss
CPV> realtime ssl system-wide tcpd test +udev +webrtc-aec}}
>> Installed versions: 2.0(06:44:00 AM 05/27/2012)(X alsa asyncns
CPV> caps dbus gdbm glib gnome lirc orc ssl tcpd udev webrtc-aec -avahi
CPV> -bluetooth -doc -equalizer -ipv6 -jack -libsamplerate -oss -realtime
CPV> -system-wide -test)
>> Homepage: http://www.pulseaudio.org/>
CPV> Description: A networked sound server with an advanced plugin
CPV> system
>>
>> And pulseaudio is not in the runleves, even not in /etc/init.d.
>>
>> Maybe, the pulseaudio is misconfigured. But I couldn't find any
CPV> useful information on
>> how to generate the run-time file /.pulse in the configuration
CPV> directory /etc/pulse.
>> Do you know how to generate them?
CPV> Could you do:
CPV> $ ps aux | grep pulse
Thanks again. My result is as follows:
$ ps aux | grep pulse
easior 2989 0.0 0.6 100052 5472 ? Sl 15:47 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
easior 2993 0.0 0.3 12636 2708 ? S 15:47 0:00 /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
CPV> In my system, the result is:
CPV> canek 752 0.0 0.1 320096 4164 ? Sl May27 0:03
CPV> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
CPV> which means that the PulseAudio daemon is running as my user (canek).
CPV> To write into /, the daemon should be running as root; if the result
CPV> from "ps aux" shows that, it means that your system is starting
CPV> pulseaudio as the superuser.
I think that the runtime files should be in the /var/somewhere or /root/ even if the
pulseaudio is been running as the superuser. Do you?
CPV> Regards.
CPV> --
CPV> Canek Peláez Valdés
CPV> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
CPV> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-01 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-29 22:51 [gentoo-user] what's wrong with pulseaudio? Easior
2012-05-29 23:24 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-05-30 9:35 ` Easior
2012-05-30 16:03 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-05-31 3:09 ` Easior
2012-05-31 14:44 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-06-01 8:23 ` Easior [this message]
2012-06-01 14:19 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-06-01 14:27 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-01 14:28 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-05-31 8:54 ` Keith Dart
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