Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio
Control: found -1 2.0-6.1 Hi, On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Dr. Robin Haunschild h...@unschild.de wrote: Hi, yes, I still experience this in the pulseaudio version of Debian/stable. I didn't test newer versions. My workaround is to kill all pulseaudio processes as root and restart audio play back. If you could test the version from testing it would be great to confirm, but lets try to debug the problem. Could you please post the output of the following commands? pulseaudio -v -v -v groups (this is to see if you are in the audio group) ls -l /dev/snd cat /etc/default/pulseaudio Also, does that system have multiple users? -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio
Hi, on Tue, 08 04 14 14:50:06 Felipe Sateler wrote: Control: found -1 2.0-6.1 Hi, On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Dr. Robin Haunschild h...@unschild.de wrote: Hi, yes, I still experience this in the pulseaudio version of Debian/stable. I didn't test newer versions. My workaround is to kill all pulseaudio processes as root and restart audio play back. If you could test the version from testing it would be great to confirm, but lets try to debug the problem. Aren't there too many dependencies that I have to make some kind of a half or even full upgrade to testing? E.g.: I have libc6 in version 2.13-38+deb7u1 but pulseaudio from testing requires a libc6 version = 2.15. Could you please post the output of the following commands? Sure. pulseaudio -v -v -v $ pulseaudio -v -v -v I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us. I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to acquire high-priority scheduling: Permission denied I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 2.0 D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fstack-protector -- param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations - Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing- include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration- after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing- declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict- aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,- D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 2 CPUs. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 1255fd68d056555ca29812ab4b119d93. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 1255fd68d056555ca29812ab4b119d93-1396941267.271260-609221226. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /home/robin/.pulse/1255fd68d056555ca29812ab4b119d93-runtime. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/robin/.pulse. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-2.0/modules. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. $ ps aux | grep pulseaudio 119 4253 0.6 0.0 237188 5864 ?Sl 09:13 2:13 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog 119 4481 0.0 0.0 116492 3188 ?S09:14 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper robin 5622 0.0 0.0 323700 7484 ?Sl 09:15 0:01 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog robin 5623 0.0 0.0 116464 3196 ?S09:15 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper robin12021 0.0 0.0 7836 872 pts/7S+ 15:01 0:00 grep pulseaudio $ grep 119 /etc/passwd speech-dispatcher:x:119:29:Speech Dispatcher,,,:/var/run/speech- dispatcher:/bin/sh $ grep 119 /etc/group pulse-access:x:119:robin I'm not aware that I am using speech-dispatcher. Maybe I just uninstall the package speech-dispatcher and hope the problem will be gone. Or is speech- dispatcher some system package needed by other applications? groups (this is to see if you are in the audio group) $ groups robin dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip src video plugdev scanner netdev bluetooth pulse pulse-access vboxusers fuse ls -l /dev/snd $ ls -l /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Apr 8 09:13 by-path crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 9 Apr 8 09:13 controlC0 crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 8 Apr 8 09:13 hwC0D0 crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 7 Apr 8 09:13 hwC0D1 crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 6 Apr 8 09:13 hwC0D3 crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 5 Apr 8 15:01 pcmC0D0c crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 4 Apr 8 15:01 pcmC0D0p crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 3 Apr 8 15:01 pcmC0D1p crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 2 Apr 8 15:01 pcmC0D3p crw--T 1 root root 116, 1 Apr 8 11:13 seq crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 33 Apr 8 11:13 timer cat /etc/default/pulseaudio $ cat /etc/default/pulseaudio # Start the PulseAudio sound server in system mode. # (enables the pulseaudio init script - requires that users be in the # pulse-access group) # System mode is not the recommended way to run PulseAudio as it has some # limitations (such as no shared memory access) and could potentially allow # users to disconnect or redirect each others' audio streams.
Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio
Hi, On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Dr. Robin Haunschild h...@unschild.de wrote: on Tue, 08 04 14 14:50:06 Felipe Sateler wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Dr. Robin Haunschild h...@unschild.de wrote: yes, I still experience this in the pulseaudio version of Debian/stable. I didn't test newer versions. My workaround is to kill all pulseaudio processes as root and restart audio play back. If you could test the version from testing it would be great to confirm, but lets try to debug the problem. Aren't there too many dependencies that I have to make some kind of a half or even full upgrade to testing? E.g.: I have libc6 in version 2.13-38+deb7u1 but pulseaudio from testing requires a libc6 version = 2.15. Yes, possibly, if it is too much of a hassle nevermind. Could you please post the output of the following commands? Sure. pulseaudio -v -v -v $ pulseaudio -v -v -v I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us. I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to acquire high-priority scheduling: Permission denied I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 2.0 D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fstack-protector -- param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations - Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing- include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration- after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing- declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict- aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,- D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 2 CPUs. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 1255fd68d056555ca29812ab4b119d93. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 1255fd68d056555ca29812ab4b119d93-1396941267.271260-609221226. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /home/robin/.pulse/1255fd68d056555ca29812ab4b119d93-runtime. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/robin/.pulse. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-2.0/modules. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. Pulseaudio was already running so we can't say what is the problem, however there are hints below: $ ps aux | grep pulseaudio 119 4253 0.6 0.0 237188 5864 ?Sl 09:13 2:13 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog 119 4481 0.0 0.0 116492 3188 ?S09:14 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper robin 5622 0.0 0.0 323700 7484 ?Sl 09:15 0:01 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog robin 5623 0.0 0.0 116464 3196 ?S09:15 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper robin12021 0.0 0.0 7836 872 pts/7S+ 15:01 0:00 grep pulseaudio $ grep 119 /etc/passwd speech-dispatcher:x:119:29:Speech Dispatcher,,,:/var/run/speech- dispatcher:/bin/sh $ grep 119 /etc/group pulse-access:x:119:robin I'm not aware that I am using speech-dispatcher. Maybe I just uninstall the package speech-dispatcher and hope the problem will be gone. Or is speech- dispatcher some system package needed by other applications? This may be the problem. Does /etc/default/speech-dispatcher enable the speech dispatcher? I have RUN=no in that file. Please try disabling the speech dispatcher. Uninstalling might be more difficult given gnome metapackage Depends on gnome-orca which in turn depends on speech-dispatcher. As noted earlier in this bug, the previous time you posted the pulseaudio output there was this message: D: module-udev-detect.c: /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0 is busy: yes This may mean that the real bug is that pulseaudio cannot negotiate the card with itself (the pulseaudio started by speech-dispatcher vs the pulseaudio by your own user). groups (this is to see if you are in the audio group) $ groups robin dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio dip src video plugdev scanner netdev bluetooth pulse pulse-access vboxusers fuse ls -l /dev/snd $ ls -l /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Apr 8 09:13 by-path crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 9 Apr 8
Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio
Hi, on Tue, 08 04 14 15:54:27 Felipe Sateler wrote: [...] $ grep 119 /etc/passwd speech-dispatcher:x:119:29:Speech Dispatcher,,,:/var/run/speech- dispatcher:/bin/sh $ grep 119 /etc/group pulse-access:x:119:robin I'm not aware that I am using speech-dispatcher. Maybe I just uninstall the package speech-dispatcher and hope the problem will be gone. Or is speech- dispatcher some system package needed by other applications? This may be the problem. Does /etc/default/speech-dispatcher enable the speech dispatcher? I have RUN=no in that file. Please try disabling the speech dispatcher. Uninstalling might be more difficult Right, I had RUN=yes, changed it into RUN=no, and restarted the system. Now the pulseaudio process from speech-dispatcher has not been started. Also, I can play sound as expected. I tried a regular mp3 and ogg file as well as playing youtube and some local video, works fine. Thanks so much. Please feel free to close this bug. However, I'd like to note that I did not set RUN=yes. Do I have to expect some disadvantage setting RUN=no? Is it possible to include in the post-install- script of pulseaudio that RUN=no is set in /etc/default/speech-dispatcher in case there is no general disadvantage? Best regards, Robin -- Dr. Robin Haunschild h...@unschild.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Dr. Robin Haunschild h...@unschild.de wrote: Hi, on Tue, 08 04 14 15:54:27 Felipe Sateler wrote: [...] $ grep 119 /etc/passwd speech-dispatcher:x:119:29:Speech Dispatcher,,,:/var/run/speech- dispatcher:/bin/sh $ grep 119 /etc/group pulse-access:x:119:robin I'm not aware that I am using speech-dispatcher. Maybe I just uninstall the package speech-dispatcher and hope the problem will be gone. Or is speech- dispatcher some system package needed by other applications? This may be the problem. Does /etc/default/speech-dispatcher enable the speech dispatcher? I have RUN=no in that file. Please try disabling the speech dispatcher. Uninstalling might be more difficult Right, I had RUN=yes, changed it into RUN=no, and restarted the system. Now the pulseaudio process from speech-dispatcher has not been started. Also, I can play sound as expected. I tried a regular mp3 and ogg file as well as playing youtube and some local video, works fine. Thanks so much. Please feel free to close this bug. However, I'd like to note that I did not set RUN=yes. Do I have to expect some disadvantage setting RUN=no? Is it possible to include in the post-install- script of pulseaudio that RUN=no is set in /etc/default/speech-dispatcher in case there is no general disadvantage? The default is to set RUN=no, both in the version in wheezy and the version in testing. Possibly speech-dispatcher defaulted to yes on earlier versions and it didn't migrate. There is a bug about this in speech-dispatcher which I just noticed (#625235). I can reproduce the problem in current sid by enabling speech-dispatcher and rebooting. I would think this is a bug in pulseaudio, as it should be capable of talking to itself to negotiate the card. Strangely enough, if I start another user session I can play sound with pulseaudio just fine. I need to do some research. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio
Hi all, Since then, all sounds which depend on pulseaudio can be played only as root. Do you still experience this issue? This bug was filed against a very old version of pulseaudio and could have been fixed in the meantime. If you still experience this, please reply so that we can debug this. Otherwise, I'd like to close this bug. Thanks -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio
Hi, yes, I still experience this in the pulseaudio version of Debian/stable. I didn't test newer versions. My workaround is to kill all pulseaudio processes as root and restart audio play back. Best, Robin On 7. April 2014 22:40:06 MESZ, Felipe Sateler fsate...@debian.org wrote: Hi all, Since then, all sounds which depend on pulseaudio can be played only as root. Do you still experience this issue? This bug was filed against a very old version of pulseaudio and could have been fixed in the meantime. If you still experience this, please reply so that we can debug this. Otherwise, I'd like to close this bug. Thanks -- Sent from my Xperia Tablet Z -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 05:06:51PM +0200, giacomo wrote: found 521675 0.9.15~test5-1 thanks I think I experienced the same bug, pulseaudio works just if started by root; it doesn't work if started from /etc/init.d/pulseaudio either (started as pulse user)... Tried both 0.9.14 and the version in experimental. Odd, is your normal user part of the audio group? Can you send the output of running pulseaudio -v -v -v as a user ? Sjoerd -- The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio
found 521675 0.9.15~test5-1 thanks I think I experienced the same bug, pulseaudio works just if started by root; it doesn't work if started from /etc/init.d/pulseaudio either (started as pulse user)... Tried both 0.9.14 and the version in experimental. Cheers, Giacomo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio
Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.14-2 Severity: important Yesterday I did a full-upgrade and there was an update of pulseaudio. Since then, all sounds which depend on pulseaudio can be played only as root. For example, kaffeine only has sound as root when the xine engine plays through pulseaudio, but it works just fine as a user when the xine engine plays through alsa. I tried to add my user to each of the 3 pulse groups, no effect. I tried to disactivate high priority in daemon.conf, no effect. Starting the pulse server as root seems to solve the issue. Now I'm going to try to start it as a daemon at boot-time. Yet it seems to create security issues. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-lancelot-005-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii consolekit0.3.0-2framework for defining and trackin ii libasound21.0.19-1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libasyncns0 0.3-1 Asyncronous name service query lib ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap2 2.16-2 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-4GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libltdl3 1.5.26-4 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii liboil0.3 0.3.15-1 Library of Optimized Inner Loops ii libpolkit-dbus2 0.9-3 library for accessing PolicyKit vi ii libpolkit20.9-3 library for accessing PolicyKit ii libpulsecore9 0.9.14-2 PulseAudio sound server core ii libsamplerate00.1.7-2audio rate conversion library ii libsndfile1 1.0.18-2 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 0.9.7-2GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio ii libasound2-plugins1.0.19-2 ALSA library additional plugins ii padevchooser 0.9.3-2PulseAudio Device Chooser ii paprefs 0.9.6-2PulseAudio Preferences ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.14-2 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer ii pulseaudio-module-hal 0.9.14-2 HAL device detection module for Pu ii pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.14-2 X11 module for PulseAudio sound se Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests: ii paman0.9.4-1 PulseAudio Manager ii pavucontrol 0.9.6+svn20080426-1 PulseAudio Volume Control ii pavumeter0.9.3-1 PulseAudio Volume Meter ii pulseaudio-utils 0.9.14-2Command 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
