Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pulseaudio
Hi! I'm running Pulseaudio on Ubuntu Feisty, and I noticed recently that it keeps filling the logs with strange "main.c: Root priviliges required." (sic) messages. During the time these messages were generated, the Pulseaudio daemon was the same, with pid 18998, and sound worked correctly as far as I could tell. I'm running Pulseaudio as a system-wide daemon, it's started as root as is normal, and is correctly switched to user "pulse". I have the same settings on two computers on the same network (it gets the same kind of messages in the logs, too, but with "localhost" instead of that host's name) and I routinely send audio from one to the other, in both directions, and it work very well as far as I can tell. I've filed this as a support question on Mars 8 or something -- https://answers.beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/4072 -- and I checked today and I still have such messages in the logs. Below is a snippet from /var/log/user.log to form an idea of the volume. (The same lines, or very similar, appear in syslog, too.) "cimer" is the hostname. Mar 7 23:13:38 cimer pulseaudio[19627]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 7 23:13:39 cimer pulseaudio[19631]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 7 23:13:39 cimer pulseaudio[19635]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 7 23:13:39 cimer pulseaudio[19639]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 7 23:46:19 cimer pulseaudio[20028]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 7 23:56:43 cimer pulseaudio[20415]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 7 23:56:43 cimer pulseaudio[20419]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 7 23:56:43 cimer pulseaudio[20423]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 7 23:56:43 cimer pulseaudio[20427]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 00:04:48 cimer pulseaudio[20508]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 00:04:49 cimer pulseaudio[20515]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 00:04:51 cimer pulseaudio[20522]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 00:39:30 cimer pulseaudio[20882]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 00:40:48 cimer pulseaudio[20910]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 01:01:54 cimer pulseaudio[21130]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 01:13:43 cimer pulseaudio[21272]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 01:22:25 cimer pulseaudio[21386]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 01:22:25 cimer pulseaudio[21390]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 01:22:49 cimer pulseaudio[21397]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 01:22:49 cimer pulseaudio[21401]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 01:22:51 cimer pulseaudio[21405]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 01:22:57 cimer pulseaudio[21410]: main.c: Root priviliges required. Mar 8 01:22:58 cimer pulseaudio[21414]: main.c: Root priviliges required ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- pulseaudio fills logs with "Root privileges required" messages https://launchpad.net/bugs/95513 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
