tag 854327 +patch thanks hi,
> The real fix is of course for consolekit module to exit gracefully if
> consolekit is not installed (the logind module does the same). But I
> have no idea how to do that. Would it be enough to check the dbus
> error name? I can't find a canonical list of error names though....
I think it's a bad idea to load the module in the first place if it is
not supposed to be loaded at all.
As pulseaudio is *modular* why do we need to deliver the console-kit
module with pulseaudio itself in the first place?
The default.pa configuration uses ifdef style module loading, if the so
file is not present theres nothing to be loaded.
.ifexists module-console-kit.so
load-module module-console-kit
.endif
1. ConsoleKit is not maintained and recommends systemd-logind [1]
2. The majority of Debian users should be using systemd-logind now
where module-console-kit is being ignored.
3. Others like Felipe and me may neither use systemd nor console-kit
and will end up with PA not willing to load at all
4. Only users having ConsoleKit installed need the module.
=> split out the module into a pulseaudio-module-consolekit package
and add a Depends: consolekit
build and use-tested patch splitting out the console-kit module attached
bye
[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit/
diff -Nrup a/debian/control b/debian/control
--- a/debian/control 2017-06-15 10:07:30.000000000 +0000
+++ b/debian/control 2017-07-08 12:15:06.068749893 +0000
@@ -122,6 +122,19 @@ Description: PulseAudio ESD compatibilit
many useful applications. It enables a PulseAudio sound server to
fully replace ESD.
+Package: pulseaudio-module-consolekit
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, consolekit (>= 0.4.6)
+Description: ConsoleKit module for PulseAudio sound server
+ PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and
+ WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with
+ much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
+ .
+ This module enables PulseAudio to dynamically give the current user access
+ to the soundcard(s) when using ConsoleKit user session switching.
+ .
+ The module is called module-console-kit.
+
Package: pulseaudio-module-zeroconf
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, avahi-daemon
diff -Nrup a/debian/pulseaudio-module-consolekit.install b/debian/pulseaudio-module-consolekit.install
--- a/debian/pulseaudio-module-consolekit.install 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ b/debian/pulseaudio-module-consolekit.install 2017-07-08 12:04:37.436752291 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+usr/lib/pulse-*/modules/module-console-kit.so
diff -Nrup a/debian/pulseaudio.install b/debian/pulseaudio.install
--- a/debian/pulseaudio.install 2017-06-15 10:07:30.000000000 +0000
+++ b/debian/pulseaudio.install 2017-07-08 12:04:20.916752354 +0000
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ usr/lib/pulse-*/modules/librtp.so
[linux-any] usr/lib/pulse-*/modules/module-alsa-sink.so
[linux-any] usr/lib/pulse-*/modules/module-alsa-source.so
usr/lib/pulse-*/modules/module-always-sink.so
-usr/lib/pulse-*/modules/module-console-kit.so
usr/lib/pulse-*/modules/module-device-restore.so
usr/lib/pulse-*/modules/module-echo-cancel.so
usr/lib/pulse-*/modules/module-stream-restore.so
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