Bug 442852 – media-sound/pulseaudio: keeps dir /var/run/pulse

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Tsoy 2012-11-12 09:40:38 UTC]

1. pulseaudio ebuild should not do keepdir /var/run/pulse.
2. afaik user 'pulse', and groups 'pulse', 'pulse-access' are only needed if USE=system-wide. So enewuser and enewgroup shouldn't be done unconditionally.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Alexander Tsoy 2012-11-12 11:07:25 UTC]

Also home dir for user 'pulse' should be moved from /var/run/pulse

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2012-11-12 20:28:47 UTC]

this is not a regression over current stable

[Comment 3 Arun Raghavan (RETIRED) 2012-12-07 20:13:15 UTC]

Fixed in 2.99.3.

[Comment 4 Alexander Tsoy 2012-12-25 17:57:01 UTC]

This bug is not completely fixed.

1. State dir should be created by init.d script. Something like this could be added to it:

checkpath -q -d -m 0755 -o pulse:pulse /var/run/pulse

2. This strings should be removed from ebuild. They are useless without deleted 'keepdir /var/run/pulse'.

        # Create the state directory
        use prefix || diropts -o pulse -g pulse -m0755

[Comment 5 Alexander Tsoy 2012-12-25 18:00:10 UTC]

Created attachment 333324 [details, diff]
pulseaudio.init.d-5.patch

[Comment 6 Alexander Tsoy 2012-12-25 18:01:28 UTC]

Created attachment 333328 [details, diff]
pulseaudio-3.0.ebuild.patch

[Comment 7 Alexander Tsoy 2012-12-26 09:57:47 UTC]

Created attachment 333374 [details, diff]
pulseaudio-3.0.ebuild.patch

Or maybe it would be better to create home dir for pulse user in /var/lib/pulse? Then pulseaudio state files will be persistent across reboots (not sure is this really needed). In this case patch for init.d script is not needed.

[Comment 8 Alexander Tsoy 2012-12-30 21:50:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> In this case patch for init.d script is not needed.

Hmm.. No, this is not true. pid file is created in /var/run/pulse, so patch for init.d script is still needed.

[Comment 9 Pacho Ramos 2014-02-16 21:20:27 UTC]

Fixed in 4.99.4