Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mellertson@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On 06/27/2012 10:57 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:24:05PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> You may want to look into running PA as a system daemon instead of a
>> user daemon.
>
> I have done so, and it didn't work. Specifically, I put these
> commands into /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
> # Start the pulseaudio daemon
> /usr/bin/pkill -9 pulseaudio
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --kill
> sleep 1
> echo "/usr/bin/pulseaudio -D --system --log-target=syslog"
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio -D --system --log-target=syslog
> /usr/bin/play /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Im-Phone-Ring.ogg
>
> Upon rebooting, no sound was produced, but a pulseaudio daemon was
> found running with the --system option. Neither I nor root could
produce
> any sound. The 'play' command ran for a time commensurate with its
> usual running time, but no sound emanated from the speakers.
>
> Neither 'pulseaudio --kill' nor 'pkill pulseaudio' were able to
> stop the daemon, either as root or as dad. root running 'kill -9 <pid>'
> did kill it. With it gone, I could once again generate sound, but root
> could not.
>
> Perhaps I misunderstand the correct way to start a "system daemon" of
> pulseaudio. I did also edit /etc/group, adding root and dad to groups
> audio, pulse, pulse-access just for good measure.
>
> Reading 'man pulseaudio' tells me the --system option is not
> recommended. Perhaps the consequences are so dire and
> world-threatening that the developer has made it inoperative.
> It tells us that a special configuration is needed, but provides no
> clue what that may be.
>

You need to edit the files in /etc/pulse. You at lease need to
modify the daemon.conf file. You will probably want uncomment
daemonize and system-instance and change them to yes.

Mikkel
 
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