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pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #1197395
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1197395

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Luke Yelavich (themuso) wrote : Re: [Bug 1197395] Re: /run/user/$ID/pulse owned by root and not by the user

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 08:39:59AM EST, Davide Depau wrote:
> It may be a media player started as root! Maybe if a media player is
> started as root could change the owner of that directory to root..

If a media player was started as root, libpulse would notice that pulseaudio is not running for root, and attempt to spawn a new instance of pulseaudio, which likely wouldn't work due to the conditions I outlined in my comment earlier.