Bug#867489: pulseaudio boottime error: no .config/pulse

[Felipe Sateler]

(Please always keep the bug in CC).

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 1:11 AM, David Lawyer <davylawyer1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:15:34PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:47 PM, David Lawyer <davylawyer1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Package: pulseaudio
> > > Version: 10.0-2
> > >
> > > When I boot my Linux PC I see the message "Failed to create secure
> > > directory (//.config/pulse) No such file or directory"  This message
> > > repeats sequentially many times.  Why the // in the message?
> >
> >
> >
> > Do you have an empty HOME environment variable? The // should usually be
> > /home/youruser/, but for some reason in this case your home directory was
> > not correctly guessed. What does `echo ~` say?
> Both echo ~ and echo $HOME says: /home/dave which is my home directory.
> I also have a ~/.config directory containing pulse/ which has 1 file:
> cookie.  I have rwx permission on these 2 directories.  No other
> permissions.
>

Is XDG_CONFIG_HOME set?

Where do you see the messages? Could you attach the full log for more
context?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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