[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#576457: pulseaudio: fails to start

[Philipp Weis]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.21-1.1
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable

After the latest NMU, pulseaudio refuses to start on my system.

$ pulseaudio -D
E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.

$ pulseaudio -k
E: core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory: Permission denied
E: main.c: Failed to kill daemon: Permission denied

Philipp


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                    0.4.1-4    framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2                    1.0.22-2   shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libasyncns0                   0.3-1      Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2                       1:2.17-2   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgdbm3                      1.8.3-9    GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.6-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libltdl7                      2.2.6b-2   A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libpulse0                     0.9.21-1.1 PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.7-3    Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.21-2   Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-1  The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libudev0                      151-3      libudev shared library
ii  libwrap0                      7.6.q-18   Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-2  X11 client-side library
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.1.0-2  X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          151-3      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      0.10.21-1  GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.22-1   ALSA library additional plugins
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat      0.9.21-1.1 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11         0.9.21-1.1 X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman                         0.9.4-1    PulseAudio Manager
pn  paprefs                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  pavucontrol                   0.9.9-1    PulseAudio Volume Control
ii  pavumeter                     0.9.3-1    PulseAudio Volume Meter
ii  pulseaudio-utils              0.9.21-1.1 Command line tools for the PulseAu

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