Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.13-2 Severity: important (this refers to the version of pulseaudio in experimental)
The script /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 is designed to start PulseAudio under an X session, and is invoked with an xdg startup item among other things. This, sadly, doesn't actually work as desired: The script starts the pulseaudio server with 'pulseaudio --start', then checks if $DISPLAY is set. When it is the following is invoked: /usr/bin/pactl load-module module-x11-publish "display=$DISPLAY" Unfortunately, pactl cannot locate the pulseaudio server: it tries /tmp/pulse-daniel and the system-wide instance, but not the ~/.pulse/<hostid>:runtime link. This means that the x11 publishing module is not loaded successfully, which the script ignores. The same is true of the X session manager item that is loaded next. I was able to address this by editing /etc/pulse/default.pa to set the following: .nofail load-module module-x11-xsmp load-module module-x11-publish .fail That unconditionally tries to load the relevant modules, which fixes the problem: pulseaudio --start now loads module-x11-publish module-x11-publish adds properties to the X root window with the hostid server address pactl uses those properties to issue the command to the server I don't know if the fault like in pactl (which, frankly, I think it does) or in the system configuration, but either way it doesn't work correctly at present, resulting in the script failing to register as an X11 PulseAudio server correctly. Regards, Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii consolekit 0.2.10-5 framework for defining and trackin ii libasound2 1.0.18-1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libasyncns0 0.3-1 Asyncronous name service query lib ii libbluetooth2 3.36-1 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libflac8 1.2.1-1.2 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-4 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libltdl3 1.5.26-4 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii libogg0 1.1.3-4 Ogg Bitstream Library ii liboil0.3 0.3.15-1 Library of Optimized Inner Loops ii libpolkit-dbus2 0.9-2 library for accessing PolicyKit vi ii libpolkit2 0.9-2 library for accessing PolicyKit ii libpulsecore8 0.9.13-2 PulseAudio sound server core ii libsamplerate0 0.1.4-1 audio rate conversion library ii libsndfile1 1.0.17-4 Library for reading/writing audio ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex extended runtime library ii libwrap0 7.6.q-16 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends: ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.9.7-2 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio ii libasound2-plugins 1.0.18-2 ALSA library additional plugins ii padevchooser 0.9.3-2 PulseAudio Device Chooser ii paprefs 0.9.6-2 PulseAudio Preferences ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.13-2 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer ii pulseaudio-module-hal 0.9.13-2 HAL device detection module for Pu ii pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.13-2 X11 module for PulseAudio sound se Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests: ii paman 0.9.4-1 PulseAudio Manager ii pavucontrol 0.9.7-1 PulseAudio Volume Control ii pavumeter 0.9.3-1 PulseAudio Volume Meter ii pulseaudio-utils 0.9.13-2 Command line tools for the PulseAu -- 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