This problem is still present on more recent versions of Ubuntu. We currently locally patch it to allow home directories to be owned by either the relevant user, or root.
It would be great if this was patched upstream. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1152137 Title: Pulseaudio won't start when home directory not owned by user Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I have an NFS mounted home directory on a dedicated fileserver which is shared with Windows PCs via SMB. The home directory is not owned by me. ACLs are set on it to allow me full control of the contents but prevent me from changing its permissions. This means any files or directories created in the home directory are owned by me even though the top level is not. Pulseaudio checks the home directory is owned by the user at startup and exits if it isn't. This stops it running on my system. I have recompiled pulseaudio without this check and it works fine. Please either remove or modify the following startup check: pulseaudio-1.1/src/pulsecore/src/pulsecore/core-util.c line 1415: if (st.st_uid != getuid()) { pa_log_error("Home directory %s not ours.", h); errno = EACCES; goto finish; } A better check would be for pulseaudio to try and create the files/folders it needs and fail if it cannot. I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and pulseaudio 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1152137/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
