On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 08:39:59AM EST, Davide Depau wrote:
> It may be a media player started as root! Maybe if a media player is
> started as root could change the owner of that directory to root..

If a media player was started as root, libpulse would notice that
pulseaudio is not running for root, and attempt to spawn a new instance
of pulseaudio, which likely wouldn't work due to the conditions I
outlined in my comment earlier.

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  /run/user/$ID/pulse owned by root and not by the user

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