On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 12:58:58PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
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> On 24 January 2016 at 22:42, Rodrigo Campos <rodr...@sdfg.com.ar> wrote:
> >
> > Package: pulseaudio
> > Version: 7.1-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > I'be updated debian testing (didn't update in a while) and after I upgraded,
> > sound from programs that run as a different user stopped working.
> >
> > When some other user tries to run: "/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
> > --log-target=syslog" it fails with errors like:
> >
> > Jan 24 22:01:58 lindsay pulseaudio[10238]: [pulseaudio] main.c:
> > User-configured
> > server at
> > {d07a5e247c911a2ac8ca6d8652d822c1}unix:/run/user/1000/pulse/native,
> > refusing to start/autospawn.
> > Jan 24 22:08:13 lindsay pulseaudio[11867]: [pulseaudio] main.c:
> > User-configured
> > server at lindsay, refusing to start/autospawn.
> >
> > Both users, the user that opened the desktop environment (let's call him
> > userA)
> > and the other user trying to run pulseaudio/firefox (let's call him userB)
> > are
> > member of group audio. Also, userA uid is 1000 and userB uid is 1001.
>
> How are you running firefox/pulseaudio as different users? Just sudo
> -u userB firefox or some other way?
Yes, just that. And also run: "xhost +SI:localuser:userB" before.
> > Usually, as autospawn is enabled, when running firefox as userB and sound
> > was needed, pulseaudio was started and audio just worked. Now everything
> > works
> > fine, except audio doesn't play. Probably because it fails as above when
> > trying
> > to start pulseaudio.
> >
> > I've found the following work-around, though, to make this work again and
> > this
> > is why I'm reporting it to pulseaudio.
> >
> > If userA logins to the desktop env and opens a console and as userB (I'm
> > doing
> > "su - userB") runs:
> >
> > pax11publish -r; /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
> >
> > then audio works again.
>
> OK, this is the x11 publish module.
>
> >
> > To check if audio works, and to be sure is nothing related to firefox, I
> > run as
> > userA in the desktop env:
> >
> > sudo -u userB -- aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
> >
> > iAfter doing the "pax11publish ..." command above, this command works.
> > Before it
> > does not. And, of course, this also fixes the audio in firefox.
>
> You can work around this by disabling the x11 publish module, via
> disabling the autostart of start-pulseaudio-x11 (by removing/moving
> away the /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop file).
Ohh, I can confirm that this workaround works.
Let me know if you need more info or I can help you with testing the fix
Thanks a lot,
Rodrigo
