I also have this bug, though on a multi-user system. I have one user who likes to play "DJ" and leave her music running while another is working at the console. Unfortunately, since PulseAudio pauses as soon as they switch accounts they have decided to work around the problem by not switching accounts! As you can imagine this is a much more serious security problem than the one PulseAudio is trying to address by shutting itself off on VT switch.
It appears, from Googling, that the preferred method of dealing with this bug is to disable the "security" features in PulseAudio. Unfortunately, that also disables many other features (again, in the name of "security") as documented here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide/ In my opinion, PulseAudio's definition of "security" needs to be more flexible. There should be some way to specify that some users do have rights to audio devices even if they do not own the current virtual terminal. I liked the way that ALSA did it, using group "audio" for users with those privileges. PulseAudio really should have an option to allow this model of security. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/841909 Title: Pulseaudio does not play in virtual console Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On a single user system Pulseaudio is difficult to enable for single user operation of the system. This means that audio stops when switching to a virtual console from xorg. This defeats the point of having players like MPD that play outside of the xorg server. Security is important but there should be an option available to setup Pulseaudio at installation time for a single user system. It is possible to change the behavior by adding the current user to the correct group (one or all of audio, pulse and pulse-control,) or disabling console-kit in Pusleaudio default.pa. I did not have time to confirm the entire procedure. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: alsa-base 1.0.24+dfsg-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23. Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: djbarney 1273 F.... pulseaudio Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Live'/'SB Live! 5.1 [SB0060] (rev.7, serial:0x80611102) at 0xcc00, irq 16' Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9708,11' Components : 'AC97a:83847608' Controls : 224 Simple ctrls : 45 Date: Mon Sep 5 16:10:00 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: alsa-driver Symptom: audio Title: PCI/internal sound card not detected UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 09/14/2006 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD dmi.bios.version: R01-A2 dmi.board.name: EM61SM/EM61PM dmi.board.vendor: Acer dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset tag number: at least 22 digits dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvrR01-A2:bd09/14/2006:svnAcer:pnAspireT180:pvrR01-A2:rvnAcer:rnEM61SM/EM61PM:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: Aspire T180 dmi.product.version: R01-A2 dmi.sys.vendor: Acer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/841909/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
