diff --git a/src/daemon/main.c b/src/daemon/main.c
index eb378d24b..c759df539 100644
--- a/src/daemon/main.c
+++ b/src/daemon/main.c
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@
 #include <dbus/dbus.h>
 #endif
 
+#ifdef __linux__
+#include <sys/personality.h>
+#endif
+
 #include <pulse/mainloop.h>
 #include <pulse/mainloop-signal.h>
 #include <pulse/timeval.h>
@@ -433,6 +437,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
     /* We might be autospawned, in which case have no idea in which
      * context we have been started. Let's cleanup our execution
      * context as good as possible */
+
+#ifdef __linux__
+    if (personality(PER_LINUX) < 0)
+        pa_log_warn("Uh, personality() failed: %s", pa_cstrerror(errno));
+#endif
+
     pa_drop_root();
     pa_close_all(passed_fd, -1);
     pa_reset_sigs(-1);