Debian Bug report logs - #574111
E: main.c: Failed to create '/tmp/pulse-$USER': Permission denied

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Teddy Hogeborn <teddy@fukt.bsnet.se>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: E: main.c: Failed to create '/tmp/pulse-$USER': Permission denied

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:26:03 +0100

Package: libpulsecore5
Version: 0.9.10-3+lenny2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

The update from 0.9.10-3+lenny1 to 0.9.10-3+lenny2 made pulseaudio
stop working:

teddy@bris:~$ pulseaudio
E: main.c: Failed to create '/tmp/pulse-teddy': Permission denied
teddy@bris:~$

It worked fine in version 0.9.10-3+lenny1.

/Teddy

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libpulsecore5 depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.7-18lenny2    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                  1:1.10-14       support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libltdl3                 1.5.26-4+lenny1 A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  liboil0.3                0.3.15-1        Library of Optimized Inner Loops
ii  libsamplerate0           0.1.4-1         audio rate conversion library
ii  libsndfile1              1.0.17-4+lenny2 Library for reading/writing audio

Versions of packages libpulsecore5 recommends:
ii  pulseaudio               0.9.10-3+lenny2 PulseAudio sound server

libpulsecore5 suggests no packages.

Message #10 received at 574111@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Arne Nordmark <nordmark@mech.kth.se>

To: 574111@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: E: main.c: Failed to create '/tmp/pulse-$USER': Permission denied

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:12:07 +0100

After rebuilding libpulsecore5 0.9.10-3+lenny2  from source on amd64, 
pulseaudio now works for me again. Maybe the build environment for the 
security update was broken?

Arne

Message #15 received at 574111@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>

To: 574111@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: E: main.c: Failed to create '/tmp/pulse-$USER': Permission denied

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:41:29 +0300

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tag 574111 patch
thanks

I can reproduce the problem on my lenny system.

To me it seems that 0007-CVE-2009-1299.patch modifies configure.ac but
does not regenerate configure. This causes HAVE_FCHMOD to be undefined
which futher causes uid stay as -1.

Adding the attached 0008-regenerate-configure.patch adds configure
generated by invoking "autoconf" and makes pulseaudio start again. I
am not very familiar with autotools so you might want to regenerate it
yourself to verify that everything goes normally.

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Message #20 received at 574111@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Benjamin Rodgers <brodgers@broadspire.com>

To: 574111@bugs.debian.org

Subject: E: main.c: Failed to create '/tmp/pulse-$USER': Permission denied

Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:01:51 -0700

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Confirmed that downgrading from 'libpulsecore5_0.9.10-3+lenny2_amd64' to
'libpulsecore5_0.9.10-3+lenny1_amd64' resolves the issue.  Also
confirmed that adding a distclean + bootstrap to debian/patches resolves
the issue.  However, am I wrong to assume that the output of bootstrap
(or any of the autotools chain) is arch-dependant?  Guess I'll spend
some time reading up on CDBS.

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Message #25 received at 574111@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>

To: 574111@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Teddy Hogeborn <teddy@fukt.bsnet.se>, Arne Nordmark <nordmark@mech.kth.se>, Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>, Benjamin Rodgers <brodgers@broadspire.com>

Subject: Re: E: main.c: Failed to create '/tmp/pulse-$USER': Permission denied

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:59:09 +0200

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Hi,

a binNMU (pulseaudio_0.9.10-3+lenny2+b1 on amd64) was uploaded some
minutes ago and this now should be fixed.
Could you confirm this please?


Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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Message #30 received at 574111-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>

To: Benjamin Rodgers <brodgers@broadspire.com>, 574111-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: E: main.c: Failed to create '/tmp/pulse-$USER': Permission denied

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:10:02 +0200

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Version: 0.9.10-3+lenny2+b1

Il 06/04/2010 23:06, Benjamin Rodgers ha scritto:
> Just installed it and restarted the pulseaudio daemon.  Seems to be
> working fine now.

Closing this bug then.

Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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Message #35 received at 574111@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>

To: Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>

Cc: 574111@bugs.debian.org, Teddy Hogeborn <teddy@fukt.bsnet.se>, Arne Nordmark <nordmark@mech.kth.se>, Benjamin Rodgers <brodgers@broadspire.com>

Subject: Re: E: main.c: Failed to create '/tmp/pulse-$USER': Permission denied

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:10:27 +0300

Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it> writes:
> a binNMU (pulseaudio_0.9.10-3+lenny2+b1 on amd64) was uploaded some
> minutes ago and this now should be fixed.
> Could you confirm this please?

pulseaudio 0.9.10-3+lenny2+b1 starts and plays audio on amd64, thank
you very much!

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