On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:31:57 -0400 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Net Kgk <net...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Package: pulseaudio > > Version: 5.0-6 > > > > After update to 5.0-6 system init-script suddenly disappears. > > I've read warning notice about running pulseaudio as system service > > and find this totally inadequate, as per-user instances don't work as > > expected, i.e. don't reproduce sound simultaneously and conflict all > > the time with each other. So in order to keep it somehow useful, > > init-script must be protected until pulseaudio will be removed from > > repository. > > Yes, this is expected. As you note, system mode is not the recommended > way to run pulseaudio. However, if you want to enable it, you can > still fetch the script from /usr/share/doc/pulseaudio/examples. > > Closing as this is not a bug. There are some legitimate use cases for running pulseaudio as a system-wide daemon system. Removing the init script breaks multiseat configurations. I have a multiseat computer with Debian Jessie with pulseaudio configured in system-wide mode; it is the most practical solution. Yesterday I did a dist-upgrade, and lost pulseaudio's init script. Pulseaudio per-user sessions were automatically started as configured in /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-kde.desktop, and I completely lost audio in all seats. Subsequently, I spent some time tracking the error to its source. Until a multiseat-aware replacement for ConsoleKit et al is ready (possibly using systemd's multiseat support), pulseaudio in system-wide mode is the most pragmatic way to have sound in multiseat configurations. Jose David Fernandez Rodriguez
