Just solved it, a much easier way. Thanks you for your advices, I directed me to taking a closer look to the logs. It lead me to discover that PA indeed started, but actually couldn't reach the sound card.
What I did was simply add my lowpriv user to the group audio, then start PulseAudio, unmute the sink and set it's volume to 100% before starting spicec. And voilà, it works like a charm ! No need for a systemwide instance :)
What I did was simply add my lowpriv user to the group audio, then start PulseAudio, unmute the sink and set it's volume to 100% before starting spicec. And voilà, it works like a charm ! No need for a systemwide instance :)
Eric Viseur
2013/7/10 Anthony Messina <amessina@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
I'm wondering if you might be able to use systemd user sessions along with theOn Tuesday, July 09, 2013 04:01:47 PM Eric Viseur wrote:
> I'm currently working on a virtualization project using F18. One of the use
> cases is booting on the multi-user systemd target, then starting the Spice
> client in a very restricted X environment by simply issuing
>
> $ xinit /usr/bin/spicec (some parameters)
>
> Everything works fine, except the sound : as I don't start a complete GDM in
> this boot scenario, PulseAudio isn't loaded. I thus tried to start
> PulseAudio manually by issuing :
>
> $ start-pulseaudio-x11
>
> before starting xinit with the same user, but it doesn't work either. After
> testing a $ pacat /dev/urandom from the host on Fedora Virtualization
> team's advice, it turns out PA doesn't work at all.
>
> So, here is my question : how to start PulseAudio correctly in such a setup
> (multi-user.target then xinit) ?
>
> Please note that if I connect to the VM from a complete GDM in the graphical
> systemd target, everything works fine.
>
> Thank you for your attention !
xorg-launch-helper [1] and user-session-units [2] since you may need some dbus
magic for PulseAudio to work. I am using this along with PulseAudio for my
F19 MythTV frontends with great success (I use it to be able to auto-switch
from speaker output to bluetooth headset output when everyone else is trying
to sleep).
Aside from the xorg-launch-helper package, which I package here [3], I have
manually created some of the files from the user-session-units, which I don't
yet package. Those are below:
#
# dbus.service
[Unit]
Description=D-Bus System Message Bus
Requires=dbus.socket
[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --systemd-
activation
ExecReload=/usr/bin/dbus-send --print-reply --session --type=method_call --
dest=org.freedesktop.DBus / org.freedesktop.DBus.ReloadConfig
#
# dbus.socket
[Unit]
Description=D-Bus System Message Bus Socket
[Socket]
ListenStream=%t/dbus/user_bus_socket
#
# example spicec.service
[Unit]
Description=spicec service
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/spicec (some parameters)
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
WantedBy=mythfrontend.target
#
# example spicec.target
[Unit]
Description=spicec target
Wants=xorg.target
Requires=dbus.socket
#After=network.target
AllowIsolate=true
And I have PulseAudio set to autospawn:
# /etc/pulse/client.conf
...
autospawn = yes
...
There's a little more service/unit file help I can give if you think this
might be a way for you to resolve the issue.
-A
[1] https://github.com/sofar/xorg-launch-helper
[2] https://github.com/sofar/user-session-units
[3] http://messinet.com/rpms
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