WSL2 self-heal: symlink the pulse socket WSLg actually creates - #5
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PortAudio's ALSA pulse plugin looks for the socket at the standard XDG runtime path regardless of $PULSE_SERVER, but WSLg only creates one at /mnt/wslg/PulseServer. Without this symlink, audio playback crashes the process outright instead of failing cleanly. The tmpfs dir resets every reboot, so this re-links on every launch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015QgYjuW3CoTZVuvJPo1eBk
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Summary
$PULSE_SERVER, but WSLg only creates one at/mnt/wslg/PulseServer. Without a symlink, audio playback crashes the process outright ("terminate called ... dumped core") instead of failing cleanly.run.shnow re-links/run/user/$UID/pulse/nativeto/mnt/wslg/PulseServeron every launch (the tmpfs runtime dir resets each reboot), only when needed.Test plan
bash -n run.shpassesnativesymlink) and confirmed the heal snippet recreates it correctlysounddevice(used bymouth.py/ears.py) can query devices and play a tone with no crash🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_015QgYjuW3CoTZVuvJPo1eBk