I am seeing this right now. I got the updated PA from saucy when it was uploaded on the 26th and rebooted on the 27th, so my system was booted with 4.0.
laney@iota> ls -la /run/user/1000 total 0 drwx------ 7 laney laney 160 Jul 27 10:40 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Jul 27 10:41 ../ drwx------ 2 laney laney 60 Jul 30 12:43 dconf/ dr-x------ 2 laney laney 0 Jul 27 10:40 gvfs/ drwx------ 2 laney laney 40 Jul 27 10:40 gvfs-burn/ drwx------ 2 laney laney 120 Jul 27 10:40 keyring-ibRVX2/ drwx------ 2 root root 100 Jul 27 10:40 pulse/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jul 27 10:41 X11-display -> /tmp/.X11-unix/X0= laney@iota> sudo ls -la /run/user/1000/pulse [sudo] password for laney: total 4 drwx------ 2 root root 100 Jul 27 10:40 . drwx------ 7 laney laney 160 Jul 27 10:40 .. srwxrwxrwx 1 laney laney 0 Jul 27 10:40 dbus-socket srwxrwxrwx 1 laney laney 0 Jul 27 10:40 native -rw------- 1 laney laney 5 Jul 27 10:40 pid laney@iota> sudo more /run/user/1000/pulse/pid 2198 laney@iota> ps faux | grep 2198 laney 2198 0.0 0.0 375976 1140 ? Sl Jul27 0:32 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog So it's started correctly as my user but the directory has the wrong permissions. Could this be a bug in lightdm? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1197395 Title: /run/user/$ID/pulse owned by root and not by the user To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1197395/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs