Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.25-4 Severity: important When pulseaudio is installed, which basically replaces alsa whith itself for userspace, /etc/init.d/alsa-utils starts creating .pulse files in system root directory during system startup/shutdown (when the script is run):
$ ls -ld /.pulse* drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 25 07:54 /.pulse/ -rw------- 1 root root 256 Feb 15 20:10 /.pulse-cookie This happens on all systems where alsa-utils and pulseaudio is installed. When the root filesystem is read-only, running /etc/init.d/alsa-utils produces this: # /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start Setting up ALSA...Failed to create secure directory: Read-only file system Failed to create secure directory: Read-only file system Failed to create secure directory: Read-only file system [message repeated 74 times total] Failed to create secure directory: Read-only file system done. In all these cases, it tries to create /.pulse/ directory, and before that, it tries to create /.pulse-cookie. (this happens when $HOME is unset, if it is set and the script run as root, it creates files in ~root obviously). I'm filing this against alsa-utils instead of pulseaudio package (but it might be pulseaudio bug after all), because the alsa-utils initscript calls amixer and explicitly tells it to act on specified _hardware_ devices, so that pulse should not be called, but yet it is being called. If that's a function marked as a constructor in libpulse, that should be libpulse bug. At any rate it is definitely a bug, -- it should not mess with the root directory like that. Thanks, /mjt -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on: ii dialog 1.1-20120215-2 ii kmod 9-3 ii libasound2 1.0.25-4 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libncursesw5 5.9-10 ii libsamplerate0 0.1.8-5 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1 ii whiptail 0.52.14-11.1 Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends: ii alsa-base 1.0.25+3~deb7u1 ii pciutils 1:3.1.9-6 alsa-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org