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

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

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> wrote:
>    >>  Hi, all!
>    >>
>    >>  I found that there were some strange files or directories under root
>    CPV> directory. Let's
>    >>  see what happened?
>    >>
>    >>  $ ls -a
>    >>  .    boot  home        media  opt     .pulse-cookie  sbin  usr
>    >>  ..   dev   lib         mnt    proc    root           sys   var
>    >>  bin  etc   lost+found  null   .pulse  run            tmp
>    >>
>    >>  As to my experience, .pulse and .pulse-cookie should be in the $HOME
>    CPV> directory. How to
>    >>  resovle this problem?
>
>    CPV> Delete them. Look at the date, they probably got created a long time
>    CPV> ago under weird circumstances (perhaps booting using a 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 ceba4124b7a0c408493ce5bb0000001e-runtime ->
> /tmp/pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n
>
> what happened?

I don't know. What desktop do you use? Do you run it as root? What
version of PulseAudio do you have installed? Do you have
/etc/init.d/pulseaudio in any of your runlevels?

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