-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/27/2012 10:57 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:24:05PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> You may want to look into running PA as a system daemon instead of a >> user daemon. > > I have done so, and it didn't work. Specifically, I put these > commands into /etc/rc.d/rc.local: > # Start the pulseaudio daemon > /usr/bin/pkill -9 pulseaudio > /usr/bin/pulseaudio --kill > sleep 1 > echo "/usr/bin/pulseaudio -D --system --log-target=syslog" > /usr/bin/pulseaudio -D --system --log-target=syslog > /usr/bin/play /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Im-Phone-Ring.ogg > > Upon rebooting, no sound was produced, but a pulseaudio daemon was > found running with the --system option. Neither I nor root could produce > any sound. The 'play' command ran for a time commensurate with its > usual running time, but no sound emanated from the speakers. > > Neither 'pulseaudio --kill' nor 'pkill pulseaudio' were able to > stop the daemon, either as root or as dad. root running 'kill -9 <pid>' > did kill it. With it gone, I could once again generate sound, but root > could not. > > Perhaps I misunderstand the correct way to start a "system daemon" of > pulseaudio. I did also edit /etc/group, adding root and dad to groups > audio, pulse, pulse-access just for good measure. > > Reading 'man pulseaudio' tells me the --system option is not > recommended. Perhaps the consequences are so dire and > world-threatening that the developer has made it inoperative. > It tells us that a special configuration is needed, but provides no > clue what that may be. > You need to edit the files in /etc/pulse. You at lease need to modify the daemon.conf file. You will probably want uncomment daemonize and system-instance and change them to yes. Mikkel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/rSgIACgkQqbQrVW3JyMR/oACdGu6Trd1d6F5ud0wIrAllZR6o PZ4An08JqM2MNoWzchCOjU/kJ6TPNn7Z =+3W3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
