Aha, thanks for that. I've been trying to find a way to reproduce the bug and with the help of comment #46 I got one that worked for me:
sudo su - pacmd list This will result in an error message and the directory being owned by root, which screws up further connections. This does not happen when trying to use the native/normal protocol (e g used by paplay or pactl), because that connection, I believe, uses the PULSE_SERVER x11 property ( see "xprop -root | grep PULSE_SERVER" ). Pacmd goes straight ahead and calls pa_runtime_path which does a chown on the directory, and normal clients can do that in more unusual situations too, e g if there is no such x11 property. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1197395 Title: /run/user/$ID/pulse owned by root and not by the user Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “systemd” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I'm experiencing this problem with Ubuntu Saucy. Some times, when I start a media player (I use Musique), it freezes, as it finds that it cannot write into /run/user/$ID/pulse. If I change the owner of that directory to me, the media player starts as usual and is able to play music. I've never had this problem with previous versions of Ubuntu. Someone says that running PulseAudio with the -D argument changes the owner of that directory, but I didn't try. This is before manually changing the owner of that directory: $ musique Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/1000/pulse): Permission denied+ ... # it doesn't crash, it keeps waiting If needed: (dmesg attached) lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03) 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) 85:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8072 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10) From /var/log/syslog: Jul 3 14:44:12 Davideddu-Laptop pulseaudio[11387]: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/1000/pulse): Permission denied Jul 3 14:44:12 Davideddu-Laptop pulseaudio[11387]: [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {781995e0a8db2617790d55ca51c37499}unix:/run/user/1000/pulse/native, refusing to start/autospawn. Jul 3 14:46:08 Davideddu-Laptop pulseaudio[11443]: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/1000/pulse): Permission denied Jul 3 14:46:08 Davideddu-Laptop pulseaudio[11443]: [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {781995e0a8db2617790d55ca51c37499}unix:/run/user/1000/pulse/native, refusing to start/autospawn. This is a fresh installation, I haven't updated it from a previous version. I'm using Ubuntu with Unity, not a derivative. These are my PPAs: canonical-qt5-edgers-qt5-proper-saucy.list dropbox.list dukto.list google-earth.list jd-team-jdownloader-saucy.list kivy-team-kivy-saucy.list mitya57-ppa-saucy.list numix-icon-theme-dev-utouch-saucy.list otto-kesselgulasch-gimp-saucy.list phablet-team-desktop-deps-saucy.list satyajit-happy-themes-saucy.list steam.list ubuntu-sdk-team-ppa-saucy.list ubuntutrucchi.list ubuntutrucchi-testing.list ubuntu-wine-ppa-saucy.list webupd8team-y-ppa-manager-saucy.list To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1197395/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
