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[Rolf Leggewie <189060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: Fix Committed => Won't Fix

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Title:
  $HOME/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse-cookie have incorrect ownership and/or
  permissions after distribution upgrade

Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in pulseaudio source package in Lucid:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: pulseaudio

  After an upgrade from gutsy to hardy alpha 4 using update-manager -d,
  the sound didn't work properly, due to bad permissions in $HOME/.pulse
  and $HOME/.pulse-cookie

  I saw this:
  %pulseaudio 
  ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
  ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
  E: authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/cundy/.pulse-cookie': Permission denied
  E: authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/home/cundy/.pulse-cookie': Permission denied
  E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-native-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
  E: main.c: Module load failed.
  E: main.c: failed to initialize daemon.

  %ls -l /home/cundy/.pulse-cookie
  -rw------- 1 root root 256 2008-02-04 18:34 /home/cundy/.pulse-cookie

  After
  %chown cundy:cundy /home/cundy/.pulse-cookie

  I got

  %pulseaudio 
  ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
  ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0

  W: core-util.c: Failed to open configuration file '/home/cundy/.pulse/default-sink': Permission denied
  W: core-util.c: Failed to open configuration file '/home/cundy/.pulse/default-source': Permission denied

  I fixed it with

  chown cundy:cundy /home/cundy/.pulse

  and then sound started to work.

  The permissions need to be fixed in whichever one of the pulseaudio
  packages is relevant.

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