Your message dated Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:05:23 -0300 with message-id <20140418220523.ga15...@sateler.com> and subject line Re: Bug#684691: pulseaudio creates /.pulse and /.pulse-cookie has caused the Debian Bug report #684691, regarding pulseaudio: creates hidden config files / folders in the root directory to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: pulseaudio Version: 2.0-3 Severity: minor --- Please enter the report below this line. --- The pulsaudio daemon is creating a cookie file and a runtime folder in the root of the filesystem: drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 19 20:01 /.pulse -rw------- 1 root root 256 May 7 22:40 /.pulse-cookie This goes against the Linux FHS and accepted usage (IMHO :-), those run files should rather be created in /run, or otherwise in /var/{lib,run,lock} etc --- System information. --- Architecture: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.3.1 Debian Release: wheezy/sid 990 testing security.debian.org 990 testing ftp.de.debian.org 950 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org 950 testing www.debian-multimedia.org 800 unstable ftp.de.debian.org 700 experimental ftp.de.debian.org 500 unstable lcg-heppkg.web.cern.ch 500 stable dl.google.com --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed =======================================================-+- ======================= libasound2 (>= 1.0.24.1) | 1.0.25-3 libc6 (>= 2.9) | 2.13-32 libcap2 (>= 2.10) | 1:2.22-1 libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1) | 1.5.12-1 libfftw3-3 | 3.3.2-1 libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.7.0-8 libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0) | 2:1.0.8-2 libltdl7 (>= 2.4.2) | 2.4.2-1 liborc-0.4-0 (>= 1:0.4.16) | 1:0.4.16-2 libpulse0 (= 2.0-3) | 2.0-3 libsamplerate0 (>= 0.1.7) | 0.1.8-4 libsm6 | 2:1.2.1-2 libsndfile1 (>= 1.0.20) | 1.0.25-4 libspeexdsp1 (>= 1.2~beta3.2-1) | 1.2~rc1-5 libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) | 4.7.0-8 libsystemd-daemon0 (>= 31) | 37-1.1 libsystemd-login0 (>= 31) | 37-1.1 libtdb1 (>= 1.2.7+git20101214) | 1.2.10-2 libudev0 (>= 146) | 175-3.1 libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 | 0.1-2 libx11-6 | 2:1.4.99.901-2 libx11-xcb1 | 2:1.4.99.901-2 libxcb1 | 1.8.1-1 libxtst6 | 2:1.2.1-1 adduser | 3.113+nmu2 lsb-base (>= 3.2-13) | 4.1+Debian4 consolekit | 0.4.5-3 udev (>= 143) | 175-3.1 libasound2-plugins | 1.0.25-2 Recommends (Version) | Installed =======================================-+-=========== pulseaudio-module-x11 | 2.0-3 gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio | 0.10.31-3 rtkit | 0.10-2 Suggests (Version) | Installed ===============================-+-=========== pulseaudio-utils | 2.0-3 pavumeter | 0.9.3-2 pavucontrol | 1.0-1 paman | 0.9.4-1 paprefs | 0.9.10-1
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--- Begin Message ---Hi all, On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 04:04:41AM -0600, Adam Dane wrote: > This looks similar to a bug in the Gentoo distribution at > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438844 > > When the alsa-utils init script restores the sound card state (via alsactl), > it runs without a HOME environment variable, so the files get created in /. > > Likely, the pulseaudio plugin for ALSA (from libasound2-plugins package) > causes pulseaudio to be invoked, creating the files. > > The patch in the Gentoo bug currently adds a HOME variable to alsactl's > environment with an appropriate folder. This means the files get created > there instead of /. > > If there is a way to disable the plugin when the alsa-utils init script > runs, it would avoid creating the files altogether. This issue was fixed by alsa-utils 1.0.27.2-1, as it now sets $HOME to /var/run/alsa. Unfortunately, this will still be a problem for wheezy, unless you want ask for a stable update. I am closing this bug as it is actually a problem with alsa-utils. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
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