Re: [Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Thus quoth  David Izquierdo  at 19:16 on Tue, May 09 2017:
>
> I don't know how to see that process' logs. Maybe some magic journalctl
> option. Is it possible that it's starting as a systemd user service?
> Then `journalctl --user -eu pulseaudio` would work... But starting pulse
> like that doesn't seem to work for me.

This

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

may be a way to go to get PulseAudio discuss its issues with you. (I
didn't try it.)

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Re: [Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread David Izquierdo
I don't know how to see that process' logs. Maybe some magic journalctl 
option. Is it possible that it's starting as a systemd user service? 
Then `journalctl --user -eu pulseaudio` would work... But starting pulse 
like that doesn't seem to work for me.



On 09/05/17 21:13, Mark Gardner wrote:

David,

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:59 PM, David Izquierdo  wrote:


If you run `pulseaudio -k`, does it kill it?


​No:​
$ pulseaudio -k
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process

​But the daemon is running as me:
$ ps aux | grep pulseaudio
​user
2572  0.0  0.0 490632 10540 ?Sl   14:55   0:00 /nix/store/
a72z0gasiv1145ygyijzgdra921pkk60-pulseaudio-10.0/bin/pulseaudio --start
--log-target=syslog
​user
2604  0.0  0.0 118264  5756 ?S14:55   0:00 /nix/store/
a72z0gasiv1145ygyijzgdra921pkk60-pulseaudio-10.0/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
​


Once dead, what does it log if you run `pulseaudio` and then try to use
pavucontrol or other program?


​I killed it by hand:
​$ sudo kill 2572 2604
$ mpv foobar.mp3  # plays
$ pavucontrol  # Works!

Going to try a reboot to see if it still works... Back to the previous
behavior until I kill them then start up something that uses pulseaudio.

Making progress. Thanks David.
​
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Re: [Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Gardner
David,

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:59 PM, David Izquierdo  wrote:

> If you run `pulseaudio -k`, does it kill it?


​No:​
$ pulseaudio -k
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process

​But the daemon is running as me:
$ ps aux | grep pulseaudio
​user
   2572  0.0  0.0 490632 10540 ?Sl   14:55   0:00 /nix/store/
a72z0gasiv1145ygyijzgdra921pkk60-pulseaudio-10.0/bin/pulseaudio --start
--log-target=syslog
​user
   2604  0.0  0.0 118264  5756 ?S14:55   0:00 /nix/store/
a72z0gasiv1145ygyijzgdra921pkk60-pulseaudio-10.0/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
​

> Once dead, what does it log if you run `pulseaudio` and then try to use
> pavucontrol or other program?


​I killed it by hand:
​$ sudo kill 2572 2604
$ mpv foobar.mp3  # plays
$ pavucontrol  # Works!

Going to try a reboot to see if it still works... Back to the previous
behavior until I kill them then start up something that uses pulseaudio.

Making progress. Thanks David.
​
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Re: [Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread David Izquierdo
If you run `pulseaudio -k`, does it kill it? Once dead, what does it log 
if you run `pulseaudio` and then try to use pavucontrol or other program?



On 09/05/17 20:58, Mark Gardner wrote:

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Sergiu Ivanov  wrote:


I suppose you tried rebooting after installing the packages?


​Yes. I did that before doing the above actions. I even upgraded to 17.03
(from 16.09) in case that helped. It didn't.
​


I'm afraid I'm running out of ideas, sorry :-( Off the top of my head, I
don't think the no-longer-available wiki page had many more details
relevant to your situation.


​Thanks for your help.

Mark


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Re: [Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Gardner
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Sergiu Ivanov  wrote:

> I suppose you tried rebooting after installing the packages?
>

​Yes. I did that before doing the above actions. I even upgraded to 17.03
(from 16.09) in case that helped. It didn't.
​

> I'm afraid I'm running out of ideas, sorry :-( Off the top of my head, I
> don't think the no-longer-available wiki page had many more details
> relevant to your situation.
>

​Thanks for your help.

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Re: [Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Thus quoth  Mark Gardner  at 18:05 on Tue, May 09 2017:
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Sergiu Ivanov  wrote:
>
>> What happens if you install pavucontrol and pamixer in a user environment?
>
[...]
> $ pavucontrol
>
> ** (pavucontrol:8551): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus
> address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus
> was not provided by any .service files
>
> ​Within the pavucontrol window that pops up it says "Connection to
> PulseAudio failed".
[...]
> $ pamixer --list-sinks
> Connection error

I suppose you tried rebooting after installing the packages?

I'm afraid I'm running out of ideas, sorry :-( Off the top of my head, I
don't think the no-longer-available wiki page had many more details
relevant to your situation.

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Re: [Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Gardner
Thanks for your prompt reply Sergiu.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Sergiu Ivanov  wrote:

> What happens if you install pavucontrol and pamixer in a user
>
environment?
>

​
​
$ nix-env -iA nixos.pavucontrol
installing ‘pavucontrol-3.0’
building path(s)
‘/nix/store/vbcjij1kyljx6psi55c3grdmgp04cwm2-user-environment’
created 1234 symlinks in user environment

$ pavucontrol
​
** (pavucontrol:8551): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus
address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus
was not provided by any .service files

​Within the pavucontrol window that pops up it says "Connection to
PulseAudio failed".​

$ nix-env -iA nixos.pamixer
installing ‘pamixer-1.3’
building path(s)
‘/nix/store/w21ijfx76xkf2smw6xk1hgvmp9b2h2s0-user-environment’
created 1235 symlinks in user environment

$ pamixer --list-sinks
Connection error
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Re: [Nix-dev] PulseAudio

2017-05-09 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello Mark,

Thus quoth  Mark Gardner  at 17:38 on Tue, May 09 2017:
>
> I am having trouble getting PulseAudio to work. I added the following to
> configuration.nix, executed nixos-rebuild switch, and rebooted:
>
>   hardware.pulseaudio = {
> enable = true;
> package = pkgs.pulseaudioFull;
>   };
>   environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
> pamixer
> paprefs
> pavucontrol
>   ];

Here's what I have in my /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:

  hardware = {
bluetooth.enable = true;
pulseaudio = {
  enable = true;
  package = pkgs.pulseaudioFull;
};
  };

I installed pavucontrol and pamixer using nix-env, both work
properly. Also, a bluetooth speaker worked out of the box with this
configuration.

I couldn't get paprefs working, however.  (I tried, but not quite really
hard.)


What happens if you install pavucontrol and pamixer in a user
environment?

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Re: [Nix-dev] pulseaudio not reading /etc/pulse/default.pa [Was: pulseaudio broken in 14.12: Daemon already running]

2015-01-27 Thread Kirill Elagin
`man default.pa` has to say:

 The  PulseAudio  sound  server  interprets the file 
 ~/.config/pulse/default.pa on startup, and when that file doesn't exist 
 /etc/pulse/default.pa.

Just out of curiosity I checked the source and it seems that this line
was already there in 2007 and the code that opens configs hasn’t
changed at all for a few years but I’m pretty sure that PA had this
behaviour back in 2007 since there are no traces of code that looks
like merging the two files.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Peter Jones mli...@pmade.com wrote:
 Peter Jones mli...@pmade.com writes:
 Pulseaudio stopped working for me after upgrading to 14.12.  It seems
 that all PA clients start their own server, which eventually fails
 because the pulseaudio daemon is already running.

 I believe I've tracked down the root problem.

 It appears that if you have a ~/.config/pulse/default.pa file then
 pulseaudio will not read /etc/pulse/default.pa.  This wasn't the case in
 previous versions.

 Even an empty ~/.config/pulse/default.pa file will prevent pulseaudio
 from reading the one in /etc and thus it will start with no cards.

 Sounds like a bug in pulseaudio.

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Re: [Nix-dev] Pulseaudio broken in 14.12: Daemon already running

2015-01-27 Thread Kirill Elagin
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Peter Jones mli...@pmade.com wrote:
 From what I understand, there's no way to use `startx' with systemd.

There might be some NixOS-specific issues here, I’m not sure. But in
general there _is_ a way: you just login on the text console and run
`startx`.

 That's my preference, but I don't know how to configure NixOS to allow
 that.  For DMs, I've tried both slim and lightdm.  I have the same
 pulseaudio issues under both.

My NixOS box has been broken for a few weeks now, so I can’t check,
but I can’t think of anything in NixOS that could interfere.

 `loginctl' reports that I have a seat and that my session's terminal is
 7.  X is also running on VT 7, but it's running as *root*!

 Could X running as root be the problem here?

No, that’s not a problem, that just means that your DM is running as
root, so it launches X as root. But this explains why X has access to
your video card in case there are issues with your session setup.

So was your problem solved by removing `~/.config/pulse/default.pa`?
If no, then the next steps are ensuring that `loginctl seat-status
your_seat` lists your sound card as attached to the seat and that
`getfacl /dev/snd/*` shows that your user has rw access.


 $ nixos-version
 14.12.343.47c741f (Caterpillar)

 $ X -version
 X.Org X Server 1.16.2.901 (1.16.3 RC 1)

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Re: [Nix-dev] Pulseaudio broken in 14.12: Daemon already running

2015-01-27 Thread Kirill Elagin
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru wrote:
 From what I understand, there's no way to use `startx' with systemd.

There might be some NixOS-specific issues here, I’m not sure. But in
general there _is_ a way: you just login on the text console and run
`startx`.

 No. There are NixOS-specific issues and NixOS-specific
 fixes/workarounds; but after a systemd update it became broken. There
 is a EPERM line for an ioctl for tty when strace-ing X started from
 root login session.

What are those _NixOS-specific_ issues?

 see also:
 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-February/004614.html

 «
 My recommendation would be to somehow patch your display manager to
 manage your screen only on request, rather then trying to avoid
 a display manager at all.
 …
 There's a fundamental contradiction in creating forked off sessions like
 this: the whole audit system is written in a way that session ids can
 only change from unset to set but not from set to set to
 something else.
 »

Huh, I believe this thread is somewhat outdated =). There is no need
for `startx` to start a new session if X server is running on the same
vt. That’s the whole point of, as I said earlier, having recent
versions of `startx` start X on the same vt.

Again: starting with xinit-1.3.4 you just login on the text console,
type `startx` and everything works, because you stay on the same
console and logind has already given you all the required permissions.
At least, that’s how it works in theory and that’s what I see on my
Gentoo laptop.
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Re: [Nix-dev] Pulseaudio broken in 14.12: Daemon already running

2015-01-26 Thread Peter Jones
Kirill Elagin kirela...@gmail.com writes:
 Do you use a desktop manager or start your X session manually? The
 important thing is to make sure that your X server is running on _the same
 virtual terminal_ your logind session was opened on, otherwise you won’t
 get permissions to access hardware. Desktop managers take care of this and
 recent versions of `startx` (starting from xinit-1.3.4 IIRC) also do.
 `loginctl show-session session-id -p VTNr` tells you what logind thinks
 is your session’s terminal. I believe that the default of X is still to
 choose the first available terminal, so you have to explicitly pass it
 `vtyour-session-terminal-number` (`startx` does exactly this).

From what I understand, there's no way to use `startx' with systemd.
That's my preference, but I don't know how to configure NixOS to allow
that.  For DMs, I've tried both slim and lightdm.  I have the same
pulseaudio issues under both.

`loginctl' reports that I have a seat and that my session's terminal is
7.  X is also running on VT 7, but it's running as *root*!

Could X running as root be the problem here?

$ nixos-version
14.12.343.47c741f (Caterpillar)

$ X -version
X.Org X Server 1.16.2.901 (1.16.3 RC 1)

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Re: [Nix-dev] Pulseaudio broken in 14.12: Daemon already running

2015-01-26 Thread Kirill Elagin
As Benno said this means that most likely something is wrong with your
session and you don’t get access to audio devices.
What’s strange is that 14.12 uses xorg-server-1.16-* and this should run as
user by default and as a result should crash with insufficient permissions
to access video devices unless you do something special to start it as root.

Do you use a desktop manager or start your X session manually? The
important thing is to make sure that your X server is running on _the same
virtual terminal_ your logind session was opened on, otherwise you won’t
get permissions to access hardware. Desktop managers take care of this and
recent versions of `startx` (starting from xinit-1.3.4 IIRC) also do.
`loginctl show-session session-id -p VTNr` tells you what logind thinks
is your session’s terminal. I believe that the default of X is still to
choose the first available terminal, so you have to explicitly pass it
`vtyour-session-terminal-number` (`startx` does exactly this).

On Mon Jan 26 2015 at 9:32:29 AM Benno Fünfstück 
benno.fuenfstu...@gmail.com wrote:

 PulseAudio should get its permissions from systemd logind. You can use
 loginctl to view of you're properly assigned a seat.

 Regards,
 Benno

 Peter Jones mlists mli...@pmade.com@ mli...@pmade.compmade.com
 mli...@pmade.com schrieb am So., 25. Jan. 2015 19:40:
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Re: [Nix-dev] Pulseaudio broken in 14.12: Daemon already running

2015-01-25 Thread Benno Fünfstück
PulseAudio should get its permissions from systemd logind. You can use
loginctl to view of you're properly assigned a seat.

Regards,
Benno

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Re: [Nix-dev] Pulseaudio broken in 14.12: Daemon already running

2015-01-25 Thread Peter Jones
Peter Jones mli...@pmade.com writes:
 Peter Jones mli...@pmade.com writes:
 Pulseaudio stopped working for me after upgrading to 14.12.  It seems
 that all PA clients start their own server, which eventually fails
 because the pulseaudio daemon is already running.

 I just noticed that pulseaudio doesn't see my sound cards:

This appears to be some sort of permission issue.  If I run pulseaudio
as root then everything works as expected.  Running it under my user
account somehow prevents pulseaudio from seeing any of the sound cards.

I did have my user account in the audio group.  I've since removed it
after reading some documentation, rebooted, and still no sound cards
detected by pulseaudio.

Using strace, I don't see pulseaudio failing to open any files or even
trying to access /dev/snd/*.  I do see several errors coming from
setrlimit though.

What's the next step in debugging this?

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Re: [Nix-dev] Pulseaudio broken in 14.12: Daemon already running

2015-01-24 Thread Peter Jones
Kirill Elagin kirela...@gmail.com writes:
 What exactly do you mean by “disabling” pulseaudio?
 Do you have a system-wide instance of pulseaudio running (e.g. by setting
 `pulseAudio.systemWide = true` in the configuration.nix)? If yes, then do
 you have any good reasons for doing so? If no, then disable the system-wide
 instance.

By disable I meant `hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;'.

 Normally, there is exactly one instance of pulseaudio per user and it is
 spawned automatically (to be precise, it is spawned automatically iff it is
 not already running; and most likely your DE starts one during
 initialisation).

I'm only running the one (user) instance and don't use a DE so one isn't
started when I log in.  When I start an audio application pulseaudio is
started automatically.

The problem seems to be that pulseaudio is started even if another one
is running.  Clients can't seem to detect the running pulseaudio thus
they start a new daemon which immediately dies after seeing an existing
PID file.

How do clients check for a running pulseaudio daemon?  I'm wondering if
that process is broken.

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Re: [Nix-dev] Pulseaudio broken in 14.12: Daemon already running

2015-01-24 Thread Peter Jones
Peter Jones mli...@pmade.com writes:
 Pulseaudio stopped working for me after upgrading to 14.12.  It seems
 that all PA clients start their own server, which eventually fails
 because the pulseaudio daemon is already running.

I just noticed that pulseaudio doesn't see my sound cards:

  $ pacmd list-cards
  0 card(s) available.

But aplay does:

  $ aplay -L
  null
  Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
  default
  Default Audio Device (via PulseAudio)
  hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
  HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 0
  HDMI Audio Output
  hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=1
  HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 1
  HDMI Audio Output
  hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=2
  HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 2
  HDMI Audio Output
  sysdefault:CARD=PCH
  HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
  Default Audio Device
  front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
  HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
  Front speakers
  surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
  HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
  2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
  surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
  HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
  4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
  surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
  HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
  4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
  surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
  HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
  5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
  surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
  HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
  5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
  surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
  HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
  7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
  

Could this be part of the problem?

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Re: [Nix-dev] Pulseaudio broken in 14.12: Daemon already running

2015-01-24 Thread Kirill Elagin
What exactly do you mean by “disabling” pulseaudio?
Do you have a system-wide instance of pulseaudio running (e.g. by setting
`pulseAudio.systemWide = true` in the configuration.nix)? If yes, then do
you have any good reasons for doing so? If no, then disable the system-wide
instance.

Normally, there is exactly one instance of pulseaudio per user and it is
spawned automatically (to be precise, it is spawned automatically iff it is
not already running; and most likely your DE starts one during
initialisation).

If you really need system-wide pulseaudio for some reason, then you might
want to go through [Running PulseAudio as System-Wide Daemon](
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/)
and let us know what was wrong. Actually I have no idea how well is this
mode supported in NixOS and does anyone even test it…

On Sat Jan 24 2015 at 5:36:45 AM Peter Jones mli...@pmade.com wrote:

 Pulseaudio stopped working for me after upgrading to 14.12.  It seems
 that all PA clients start their own server, which eventually fails
 because the pulseaudio daemon is already running.

 For example, if I kill pulseaudio and then start it by hand with -vvv, I
 can see it start correctly and write its PID into a file.  Then, if I
 run anything that needs to access pulse, like speaker-test, alsamixer,
 pavucontrol, etc., I can see in journalctl that another instance of
 pulseaudio is started and then dies with the error Daemon already
 running.  The client usually dies with connection refused.

 I've turned off autospawning, and that doesn't change anything.
 Disabling pulseaudio and rebooting gives me sound again.

 Any idea why each client is trying to start their own pulseaudio daemon?

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