Your message dated Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:34:36 +0000
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and subject line Bug#712980: fixed in alsa-utils 1.0.27.2-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #712980,
regarding alsa-utils startup script creates /.pulse files ("Failed to create
secure directory") when pulseaudio is installed
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Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.25-4
Severity: important
When pulseaudio is installed, which basically replaces alsa whith
itself for userspace, /etc/init.d/alsa-utils starts creating
.pulse files in system root directory during system startup/shutdown
(when the script is run):
$ ls -ld /.pulse*
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 25 07:54 /.pulse/
-rw------- 1 root root 256 Feb 15 20:10 /.pulse-cookie
This happens on all systems where alsa-utils and pulseaudio
is installed.
When the root filesystem is read-only, running /etc/init.d/alsa-utils
produces this:
# /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start
Setting up ALSA...Failed to create secure directory: Read-only file system
Failed to create secure directory: Read-only file system
Failed to create secure directory: Read-only file system
[message repeated 74 times total]
Failed to create secure directory: Read-only file system
done.
In all these cases, it tries to create /.pulse/ directory, and
before that, it tries to create /.pulse-cookie.
(this happens when $HOME is unset, if it is set and the script
run as root, it creates files in ~root obviously).
I'm filing this against alsa-utils instead of pulseaudio package
(but it might be pulseaudio bug after all), because the alsa-utils
initscript calls amixer and explicitly tells it to act on specified
_hardware_ devices, so that pulse should not be called, but yet it
is being called. If that's a function marked as a constructor in
libpulse, that should be libpulse bug.
At any rate it is definitely a bug, -- it should not mess with
the root directory like that.
Thanks,
/mjt
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii dialog 1.1-20120215-2
ii kmod 9-3
ii libasound2 1.0.25-4
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libncursesw5 5.9-10
ii libsamplerate0 0.1.8-5
ii libtinfo5 5.9-10
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii whiptail 0.52.14-11.1
Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii alsa-base 1.0.25+3~deb7u1
ii pciutils 1:3.1.9-6
alsa-utils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: alsa-utils
Source-Version: 1.0.27.2-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
alsa-utils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 712...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Jordi Mallach <jo...@debian.org> (supplier of updated alsa-utils package)
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:11:26 +0200
Source: alsa-utils
Binary: alsa-utils alsa-utils-udeb
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.0.27.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers <pkg-alsa-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Jordi Mallach <jo...@debian.org>
Description:
alsa-utils - Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
alsa-utils-udeb - Utilities for configuring and using ALSA (udeb) (udeb)
Closes: 712980
Changes:
alsa-utils (1.0.27.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release.
* Drop all patches: all were git cherrypicks.
* Add aplay_fix_off_by_one_errors.patch from git: fix two off by one
errors in aplay that prevented usage of the last available sample format.
* Add systemd_service_typo.patch from git: fix typo in service file.
* Add alsactl_home.patch: Add a new configure switch that allows one to
configure the value of $HOME for alsactl invocations.
* Pass --with-alsactl-home-dir=/var/run/alsa to configure, to avoid
autospawned pulseaudio littering / (closes: #712980).
* Hardcode the same in the sysvinit script.
* Add systemd_restore_condition.patch: Check for the existance of the
asound.state file before trying to restore anything.
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