Subject: bug#15615: Pulseaudio build fails

From: David Thompson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:22:23 -0400

On 10/16/2013 09:15 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I think you hit the /dev/shm issue described in a footnote (info "(guix)
> Setting Up the Daemon").
>
> (Of course, re-open this bug if this is not the case.)

That is indeed the case. /dev/shm is a symlink to /run/shm.

>
> I’m not sure how to better avoid that situation.  Perhaps ‘guix-daemon’
> could explicitly check whether /dev/shm is a symlink and emit a warning
> if it is?
>
> OTOH this won’t be a problem on the GNU distro where everything will be
> correctly setup.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Have other Debian users worked around this issue?