pid file causing problems

[AnandVaidya]

OS (k)Ubuntu Linux 14.04
Turpial v3.0 from repositories libturpial v1.6.0

The turpial pid file is stored as /tmp/turpial.pid with ownership of the first person to execute the app - this becomes a problem in multi-user systems (also /tmp/turpial-debug.html)

When I have two X11 sessions on the same computer, only one user (first one) can start and run turpial - the other user(s) will not be able to start the application. This happens even after the first user quits turpial completely since the pid file is not deleted properly.

The pid file turpial-debug.html etc can be stored inside /tmp/$USERNAME/

See screenshot below: ("avdev" is my sw development acct and "anand" is my acct for other work)

avdev@asp5750$ turpial DEBUG::Using gst as sound system /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/init.py:127: RuntimeWarning: PyOS_InputHook is not available for interactive use of PyGTK set_interactive(1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/turpial", line 9, in load_entry_point('turpial==3.0', 'console_scripts', 'turpial')() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/turpial/main.py", line 106, in main t = Turpial() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/turpial/main.py", line 66, in init self.ui = util.INTERFACESoptions.interface File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/turpial/ui/qt/main.py", line 57, in init Base.init(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/turpial/ui/base.py", line 28, in init Singleton.init(self, 'turpial.pid') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/turpial/singleton.py", line 25, in init self.fd = open(self.filepath, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/turpial.pid'

avdev@asp5750$ ps -ef|grep turp

avdev 17105 17095 0 10:39 pts/8 00:00:00 grep turp

avdev@asp5750$ ls -l /tmp/turpial.pid -rw-rw-r-- 1 anand anand 0 Aug 22 10:34 /tmp/turpial.pid

[satanas]

Thanks for reporting this. I'll keep an eye on it for the next version