Bug 291497 – media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.19-r1/51:broken symlink in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Fabio Cavallo 2009-11-01 22:24:15 UTC]

The symlink 95-pulseaudio are broken.
The correct reference is 
../../../../usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
and not
../../../usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Martin Meyer 2009-11-05 16:06:02 UTC]

I can confirm that this symlink points to the wrong path.

[Comment 2 David Abbott (RETIRED) 2009-11-07 02:16:20 UTC]

Same thing with pulseaudio-0.9.19-r51

[Comment 3 David Abbott (RETIRED) 2009-11-07 02:18:03 UTC]

Created attachment 209499 [details, diff]
xinitrc.d-SYMLINK.patch

[Comment 4 Chris Coleman 2009-11-16 17:51:15 UTC]

Same problem in pulseaudio-0.9.20-r50.ebuild.

Fixing the symlink actually introduces a new problem. Even with the broken symlink, pulseaudio still starts because gnome-session starts it via `/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop`. With the symlink "fixed", start-pulseaudio-x11 is executed twice: first by `/etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome`, then by gnome-session which fails to start it because it's already running and the session hangs.

I would just get rid of the symlink. It's not needed.

[Comment 5 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2009-11-23 12:28:04 UTC]

This was not in .15-r51 but only .19-r1/-r51. Removed now in .21

[Comment 6 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2009-11-23 20:46:21 UTC]

*** Bug 294192 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***