Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 Severity: normal I'm puzzled by pulseaudio's init.d file. It appears to be partly disabled (although chkconfig reports it being in use) giving some actions misleading behaviour.
First, a straightforward bug, if I run: /etc/init.d/puseaudio status the init script uses status_of_proc() from /lib/lsb/init-functions the init script runs: status_of_proc $DAEMON pulseaudio -p $PIDFILE but init-functions expects -p pidfile to be at the start, otherwise the pidfile is ignored. Changing to: status_of_proc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON pulseaudio will fix this error, although it will then report an error as the pidfile isn't created. Which brings me to: /etc/init.d/puseaudio start This uses a variable: PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=0 to causes the service NOT to start from the init script. It gets started from somewhere else, but I'm not sure where. Imho, the the script silently returning success here is somewhat misleading. Setting PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1 didn't make a difference for me, apart from adding an error to syslog: Jun 11 00:15:50 selidor pulseaudio[2665]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Finally: /etc/init.d/puseaudio stop gives the error: Stopping PulseAudio DaemonNo process in pidfile '/var/run/pulse/pid' found running; none killed. .... pulseaudio is not running. I have pulseaudio running, but as it didn't start from the init.d script, it didn't create a pidfile. user@selidor:~$ ps -eo cmd | grep pulse /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start Is the init.d script the right thing to be using if I want to start/stop pulseaudio, or is there a better way to do that? Thanks --dave root@selidor:/home/user# dpkg-query -l 'pulseaudio*' ii pulseaudio 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer ii pulseaudio-module-gconf 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 GConf module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-utils 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server root@selidor:/home/user# dpkg-query -l 'lsb-base' ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init script functionality -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii consolekit 0.4.1-4 framework for defining and trackin ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcap2 1:2.19-3 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-9 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libltdl7 2.2.6b-2 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii libpulse0 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 PulseAudio client libraries ii libsamplerate0 0.1.7-3 Audio sample rate conversion libra ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libsndfile1 1.0.21-3 Library for reading/writing audio ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex extended runtime library ii libudev0 164-3 libudev shared library ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxtst6 2:1.1.0-3 X11 Testing -- Record extension li ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii udev 164-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends: ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaud 0.10.24-1 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio ii libasound2-plugins 1.0.23-1+b1 ALSA library additional plugins ii pulseaudio-esound-comp 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer ii pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 X11 module for PulseAudio sound se Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests: ii paman 0.9.4-1 PulseAudio Manager pn paprefs <none> (no description available) ii pavucontrol 0.9.9-1 PulseAudio Volume Control ii pavumeter 0.9.3-1 PulseAudio Volume Meter ii pulseaudio-utils 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 Command line tools for the PulseAu -- Configuration Files: /etc/init.d/pulseaudio changed [not included] /etc/pulse/daemon.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
