Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with pulseaudio?

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

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> wrote:
>    >>>>>>>  "CPV" == Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> writes:
>    >>
>    >>     CPV> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Easior <easior@tom.com>
>    CPV> wrote:
>    >>     >>  Hi, all!
>    >>     >>
>    >>     >>  I found that there were some strange files or directories
>    CPV> under root
>    >>     CPV> directory. Let's
>    >>     >>  see what happened?
>    >>     >>
>    >>     >>  $ ls -a
>    >>     >>  .    boot  home        media  opt     .pulse-cookie  sbin
>    CPV>  usr
>    >>     >>  ..   dev   lib         mnt    proc    root           sys
>    CPV> var
>    >>     >>  bin  etc   lost+found  null   .pulse  run            tmp
>    >>     >>
>    >>     >>  As to my experience, .pulse and .pulse-cookie should be in
>    CPV> the $HOME
>    >>     CPV> directory. How to
>    >>     >>  resovle this problem?
>    >>
>    >>     CPV> Delete them. Look at the date, they probably got created a
>    CPV> long time
>    >>     CPV> ago under weird circumstances (perhaps booting using 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 effect.
>    >>  They will apear again in that place every time the Gentoo is 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 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 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 (~)2.0 **9999 {{+X +alsa +asyncns avahi bluetooth +caps dbus doc equalizer +gdbm +glib gnome ipv6 jack libsamplerate lirc +orc oss realtime ssl system-wide tcpd test +udev +webrtc-aec}}
>     Installed versions:  2.0(06:44:00 AM 05/27/2012)(X alsa asyncns caps dbus gdbm glib gnome lirc orc ssl tcpd udev webrtc-aec -avahi -bluetooth -doc -equalizer -ipv6 -jack -libsamplerate -oss -realtime -system-wide -test)
>     Homepage:            http://www.pulseaudio.org/
>     Description:         A networked sound server with an advanced plugin 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 useful information on
> how to generate the run-time file /.pulse in the configuration directory /etc/pulse.
> Do you know how to generate them?

Could you do:

$ ps aux | grep pulse

In my system, the result is:

canek      752  0.0  0.1 320096  4164 ?        Sl   May27   0:03
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

which means that the PulseAudio daemon is running as my user (canek).
To write into /, the daemon should be running as root; if the result
from "ps aux" shows that, it means that your system is starting
pulseaudio as the superuser.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México