Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Root ownership on /tmp/pulse-$USER (a warning to packagers)

2008-02-21 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:18:46AM +, Colin Guthrie wrote: Anyway, to cut a long story short, I eventually found that it was actually libesound that was starting this process. If you run an application as root (e.g. firestarter - a gtk firewall thingy) that used libesound it would go

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Root ownership on /tmp/pulse-$USER (a warning to packagers)

2008-02-21 Thread Matthew Patterson
I have noticed this behavior on occasion as well. It has caused far too many sudo killall -9 pulseaudio calls! On my system I always know because it warns about being unable to access my output device and then fails to run. Which distrib's are you packaging for again? Matt CJ van den

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Root ownership on /tmp/pulse-$USER (a warning to packagers)

2008-02-21 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:16:12AM -0800, Matthew Patterson wrote: I have noticed this behavior on occasion as well. It has caused far too many sudo killall -9 pulseaudio calls! On my system I always know because it warns about being unable to access my output device and then fails to

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Root ownership on /tmp/pulse-$USER (a warning to packagers)

2008-02-21 Thread Colin Guthrie
CJ van den Berg wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:16:12AM -0800, Matthew Patterson wrote: I have noticed this behavior on occasion as well. It has caused far too many sudo killall -9 pulseaudio calls! On my system I always know because it warns about being unable to access my output

[pulseaudio-discuss] Root ownership on /tmp/pulse-$USER (a warning to packagers)

2008-02-20 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hi, This is a little story that I've only just recently fully appreciated As with many distro's I've repackaged esound such that the actual binary is distributed separately and as such pulse can be installed with it's /usr/bin/esdcompat script symlinked to /usr/bin/esd. Anyway, while doing