[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#712980: Bug#712980: alsa-utils startup script creates /.pulse files ("Failed to create secure directory") when pulseaudio is installed

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> [2013-06-21 16:26 +0400]:

> Package: alsa-utils
> Version: 1.0.25-4
> Severity: important
> 
> When pulseaudio is installed, which basically replaces alsa whith
> itself for userspace, /etc/init.d/alsa-utils starts creating
> .pulse files in system root directory during system startup/shutdown
> (when the script is run):
> 
> $ ls -ld /.pulse*
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 25 07:54 /.pulse/
> -rw------- 1 root root  256 Feb 15 20:10 /.pulse-cookie
> 
> This happens on all systems where alsa-utils and pulseaudio
> is installed.

It seems that the initscript creates this is due to a miss of HOME env
variable at the time this script runs. See [0]

We should define a homedir via the -E option of alsactl in the
initscript. What about /var/run/alsa-utils? Any thoughts, Jordi?

[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438844

Elimar
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