Shutdown error with pulseaudio on GhostBSD Mate system

3bbas

Hi everyone,

I’m a brand new GhostBSD user. Great experience, so far, on an overall very stable system.

I’ve noticed an error message that started appearing, not too long ago, each time I’ve shutdown my laptop. Not sure what’s responsible for it, and I’ve been updating my system anytime an update prompt is there.

It is as follows:

“Waiting for PIDS: 1378Apr 1 22:09:54 phantom-ghostbsd pulseaudio[1940]: [] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/var/run/user/1001/pulse): No such file or directory

, 1378.”

I’ve checked and the directory path above is present on my system.

An internet search shows this was similarly detected by a FreeBSD user who reported this as a bug without a solution provided later. See “https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276084”.

Please provide your suggestions for fixing this. Thank you.

vimanuelt

It would be best to submit a bug report for this issue. We use GitHub (https://github.com/ghostbsd/) for tracking feature requests & bug reports.

To submit a bug report, go to ghostbsd/issuesissues/new?assignees=&labels=bug&template=bug_report.yaml

To suggest a new feature, go to ghostbsd/issuesissues/new?assignees=&labels=feature&template=feature_request.yaml

However, here is a one-time script to help in the meanwhile.

#!/bin/sh

# Set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR using the current user ID
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/tmp/runtime-$(id -u)"

# Create the runtime and pulse subdirectory if missing
if [ ! -d "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse" ]; then
  mkdir -p "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse"
  chmod 700 "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
fi

# Optional: Create client.conf for PulseAudio
mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/pulse"
echo "default-runtime-dir = $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse" > "$HOME/.config/pulse/client.conf"

# Optional: Notify user (can be removed in silent login)
echo "✔ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR set to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"

Save this script:

nano ~/setup-runtime-dir.sh
# Paste the code, save with Ctrl+O, Enter, then Ctrl+X
chmod +x ~/setup-runtime-dir.sh

Source it in login scripts:

Add this line to ~/.profile and ~/.xinitrc:

[ -f "$HOME/setup-runtime-dir.sh" ] && . "$HOME/setup-runtime-dir.sh"