I've been looking at one or two things which seem a bit odd in my currnet build. First, running the tests on falkon tried to create run/user/ken but failed with -EPERM - I have /run/user/1000, symlinking ken to 1000 caused the error message to change - it expected a directory buit found a symlink.
Now I've decided to try to get sound in firefox working again (it's been broken for a while, but I don't usually have time to care). So I killed firefox and ran the first of the "how to fix it" steps: ken@origin ~ $pactl list short sinks Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/ken/pulse): No such file or directory Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused Has anyone else using sysv got /run/user/$name or is everyone on /run/user/number ? It looks as if the reason for no sound is that pulseaudio needs to access /run/user/ken - after trying to kill it (failed, but not running) : ken@origin ~ $pulseaudio --kill E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/ken/pulse): No such file or directory E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such file or directory ken@origin ~ $killall -KILL pulseaudio pulseaudio: no process found ken@origin ~ $ps aux | grep pulse ken 4423 0.0 0.0 221364 2232 pts/3 S+ 03:09 0:00 grep pulse I then tried to start it: ken@origin ~ $pulseaudio --verbose I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to acquire high-priority scheduling: No such file or directory I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 14.2 I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is b541c1c5d946b7c8ef70d0cb6026903f. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is c1. E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/ken/pulse): No such file or directory ken@origin ~ $ps aux | grep pulse ken 4435 0.0 0.0 221364 2064 pts/3 S+ 03:10 0:00 grep pulse At this point I think I'll utter the usual obscenities. Thanks for any suggestions. ĸen -- Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout. -- rfc 2324 (1st April 1998) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
