Bug#867489: pulseaudio boottime error: no .config/pulse

[David Lawyer]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:10:49PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> (Please always keep the bug in CC).
> 
> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 1:11 AM, David Lawyer <davylawyer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:15:34PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:47 PM, David Lawyer <davylawyer1 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Package: pulseaudio
> > > > Version: 10.0-2
> > > >
> > > > When I boot my Linux PC I see the message "Failed to create secure
> > > > directory (//.config/pulse) No such file or directory"  This message
> > > > repeats sequentially many times.  Why the // in the message?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Do you have an empty HOME environment variable? The // should usually be
> > > /home/youruser/, but for some reason in this case your home directory was
> > > not correctly guessed. What does `echo ~` say?
> > Both echo ~ and echo $HOME says: /home/dave which is my home directory.
> > I also have a ~/.config directory containing pulse/ which has 1 file:
> > cookie.  I have rwx permission on these 2 directories.  No other
> > permissions.
> >
> 
> Is XDG_CONFIG_HOME set?
No.
> 
> Where do you see the messages? Could you attach the full log for more
> context?
They flash by on the screen but per grep are not found in /var/log/.  Only
the first part of my boottime messages get logged so this behavior is
normal.  But the following are found in logs. They usually happen a few
times each day and I often turn on and off my PC a few times a day.  But
sometimes there is more than one such message per session on my PC: I
switch back and forth between GUI and command line VT.

error.1:Jul 10 08:52:47 daveslinux pulseaudio[2661]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
messages:Jul 20 18:48:47 daveslinux pulseaudio[2849]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Saludos,
> Felipe Sateler
			David Lawyer