Bug 77895

Summary:	esound compat module leaves empty directory on exit when per user sockets are used
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	Felipe Sateler <fsateler>
Component:	modules	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium	CC:	lennart, rdieter
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Felipe Sateler 2014-04-24 14:03:11 UTC

Forwarded from debian bug #561780

The esound compat module does not remove the socket path when compiled with per-user sockets. This leaves the system with empty /tmp/.esd-$UID/ folders.

The fix is simply to remove on line 505 the "&& !defined(USE_PER_USER_ESOUND_SOCKET)"

Thanks

Comment 1 Tanu Kaskinen 2014-04-25 10:30:01 UTC

I sent a patch to the mailing list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/20209

I didn't commit the patch right away, because apparently there's some reason behind the USE_PER_USER_ESOUND_SOCKET check, so I wanted to give other people a chance to comment on the patch first.

In the Debian bug there was a claim that if the directory already exists when pulseaudio starts, then pulseaudio startup would fail. That sounds unlikely (I'm sure there was some problem with the esound socket, but just the existence of the directory shouldn't be a problem).

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