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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with pulseaudio?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 16:05:22
Message-Id: CADPrc83Md3HCw-jE6JkbnXG5S1A7i5Of3nowVHotqfNm=wQ7KA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with pulseaudio? by Easior
1 On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Easior <easior@×××.com> wrote:
2 >>>>>> "CPV" == Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> writes:
3 >
4 >    CPV> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Easior <easior@×××.com> wrote:
5 >    >>  Hi, all!
6 >    >>
7 >    >>  I found that there were some strange files or directories under root
8 >    CPV> directory. Let's
9 >    >>  see what happened?
10 >    >>
11 >    >>  $ ls -a
12 >    >>  .    boot  home        media  opt     .pulse-cookie  sbin  usr
13 >    >>  ..   dev   lib         mnt    proc    root           sys   var
14 >    >>  bin  etc   lost+found  null   .pulse  run            tmp
15 >    >>
16 >    >>  As to my experience, .pulse and .pulse-cookie should be in the $HOME
17 >    CPV> directory. How to
18 >    >>  resovle this problem?
19 >
20 >    CPV> Delete them. Look at the date, they probably got created a long time
21 >    CPV> ago under weird circumstances (perhaps booting using a livecd), and
22 >    CPV> they remained there.
23 >
24 >    CPV> Just delete them.
25 >
26 >    CPV> Regards.
27 >    CPV> --
28 >    CPV> Canek Peláez Valdés
29 >    CPV> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
30 >    CPV> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
31 >
32 > Thanks.
33 >
34 > I have tried to delete them. However, It didn't take any effect.
35 > They will apear again in that place every time the Gentoo is booted.
36 > As a fact, let's see:
37 >
38 > # ls -al .pulse*
39 > -rw------- 1 root root  256 May 27 20:53 .pulse-cookie
40 >
41 > .pulse:
42 > total 8
43 > drwx------  2 root root 4096 May 30 15:59 .
44 > drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 May 27 20:53 ..
45 > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   23 May 30 15:59 ceba4124b7a0c408493ce5bb0000001e-runtime ->
46 > /tmp/pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n
47 >
48 > what happened?
49
50 I don't know. What desktop do you use? Do you run it as root? What
51 version of PulseAudio do you have installed? Do you have
52 /etc/init.d/pulseaudio in any of your runlevels?
53
54 Regards.
55 --
56 Canek Peláez Valdés
57 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
58 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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