*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 189060 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189060
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Mario Schwalbe wrote:
> This is no duplicate and no race condition, at all. In addition to points 1-2
> by Josh Smith, I'd like to add:
> 3) if ~/.pulse is a symlink, pulseaudio fails to start although the target
> directory's permissions are correct
Have you strace -fF'd to confirm?
> the problem lies in pulsecore/core-util.c, function pa_make_secure_dir
> line 206 and following:
>
> #ifdef HAVE_LSTAT
> if (lstat(dir, &st) < 0)
> #else
> if (stat(dir, &st) < 0)
> #endif
> goto fail;
>
> #ifndef OS_IS_WIN32
> if (!S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) ||
> (st.st_uid != uid) ||
> (st.st_gid != gid) ||
> ((st.st_mode & 0777) != m)) {
> errno = EACCES;
> goto fail;
> }
The above changes can be addressed. What is being discussed is why root
has suddenly consumed the files, e.g., ~/.pulse-cookie.
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pulseaudio hangs, prevents login, home as ntfs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330766
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