Description of problem: pulseaudio creates sockets in /tmp, which get helpfully cleaned up by some magic temp cleaning thingy, breaking audio on my gnome-shell desktop. > pactl stat Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused stracing it yields: connect(7, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/home/ms/.pulse/5172863b7fcec38f9ef650e80000001d-runtime/native"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ms ms 23 28. Feb 18:43 5172863b7fcec38f9ef650e80000001d-runtime -> /tmp/pulse-pNSzNC7Gso3R > ls -l /tmp/pulse-pNSzNC7Gso3R/ > total 0 > uptime > 19:19:27 up 11 days Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pulseaudio-0.9.23-1.fc16.x86_64 Steps to Reproduce: 1. start gnome sesssion 2. wait 11 days 3. try to play audio in rhythmbox or totem Actual results: gnome control center claims there's no audio hardware silence (though mysteriously the volume control still manages to produce a ping) rhythmbox may crash (bug 708781) Expected results: sound Additional info:
The "magic temp cleaning thingy" is from the tmpwatch-2.10.3-1.fc16 package.
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