From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SaSjQ-0006RI-5a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:21:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFDCDE05D9; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:21:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB4BE02F0 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:19:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhp26 with SMTP id 26so1836075yhp.40 for ; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:19:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=R0n76bR/54brClek4Ko15O36LXywOjC7exjuY2p6SA4=; b=e9iBBOLxGIClklximulgP3D7u1tczETQsoS1lsjrmNn7W2e3DS70vafRrPdRLM8xWE Af2Z/Vtw6qz/XnRK2TQkHvCn1BJJiS4A+o97i0o1nf+Cuxzc6dwggBkotqEbMo0dr3UV iInldDlHGkLIhXgijHZh/rO/yar10uXsWv7uklLQIQKL6sAhb6+fDlZusGl1BvvkR2j3 jp1isgeYWUgyFkPRW7eA57WqPoaj4Tbwr11hA3RBnpXy3rWJi1YoYDv3LR1i3sTtcwn8 nTvs6J+LymgB1+Bh9+UoQVz2bUroea13TZ8pEa4g6HJ10zCuBIrmLwWJilr3l44PYpK8 nZaw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.79.6 with SMTP id h6mr2806700yhe.71.1338560360168; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:19:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.117.1 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 07:19:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87obp3785i.fsf@Noah.localdomain> References: <87pq9mppm8.fsf@Noah.localdomain> <87d35mf1uc.fsf@Noah.localdomain> <87396h11yg.fsf@Noah.localdomain> <87obp3785i.fsf@Noah.localdomain> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:19:20 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with pulseaudio? From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 086532ba-6cd4-44fc-a1cf-f6d4130ff83d X-Archives-Hash: ff946e4e9719c3721bac25e7d2312b39 On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Easior wrote: [ snip ] > Thanks again. My result is as follows: > > $ ps aux | grep pulse > easior =C2=A0 =C2=A02989 =C2=A00.0 =C2=A00.6 100052 =C2=A05472 ? =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Sl =C2=A0 15:47 =C2=A0 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start= --log-target=3Dsyslog > easior =C2=A0 =C2=A02993 =C2=A00.0 =C2=A00.3 =C2=A012636 =C2=A02708 ? =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0S =C2=A0 =C2=A015:47 =C2=A0 0:00 /usr/libexec/pulse= /gconf-helper [ snip ] > 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? I suppose, but your system is doing really weird stuff: running pulseaudio as user and writing to / should be, at least theoretically, impossible. PulseAudio is not setuid'. You could check proc to see if it's actually PA writing to /; for example, I have $ ps aux | grep pulse canek 752 0.0 0.1 320356 5624 ? Sl May27 2:52 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=3Dsyslog canek 755 0.0 0.0 190328 20 ? Sl May27 0:00 /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper So I do $ ls -l /proc/752/fd/ total 0 lr-x------ 1 canek canek 64 May 30 20:39 0 -> /dev/null l-wx------ 1 canek canek 64 May 30 20:39 1 -> /dev/null lrwx------ 1 canek canek 64 May 30 20:39 10 -> /home/canek/.pulse/a8880ec371495fe2255463514a0d14e8-device-volumes.x86_64-p= c-linux-gnu.gdbm lrwx------ 1 canek canek 64 May 30 20:39 11 -> /home/canek/.pulse/a8880ec371495fe2255463514a0d14e8-stream-volumes.x86_64-p= c-linux-gnu.gdbm lrwx------ 1 canek canek 64 May 30 20:39 12 -> /home/canek/.pulse/a8880ec371495fe2255463514a0d14e8-card-database.x86_64-pc= -linux-gnu.gdbm So I can see that my PA process has opened files on /home/canek/.pulse/. However, I guess that will only confirm that your PA process is opening files in /. So this I would do (as root): 1. Backup any pulse file in /etc: $ tar zcvf /root/pulse-conf-bak.tar.gz $(find /etc -iname "*pulse*") In my system, there are only 4 PulseAudio files in /etc: $ find /etc -iname "*pulse*" /etc/pulse /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-kde.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop /etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf 2. Uninstall pulse: $ emerge -C pulseaudio 3. Remove every single file in /etc that looks related to pulse (check before that nothing else is getting in the list): $ find /etc -iname "*pulse*" # If everything seems safe to delete, then $ rm -rf $(find /etc -iname "*pulse*") 4. Emerge PA again: $ emerge -1v pulseaudio 5. Delete /.pulse and all its files. 6. Reboot. If after all this you are still getting the .pulse directory in /, then I have no idea how is getting in there. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico