On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Nov 19, 2012 10:27 AM, "Oon-Ee Ng" <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx > > >wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, Pulseaudio from [testing] just updated to 2.99.2-1, now mpd audio > > > > > output (running mpd as my own user) fails with the following:- > > > > > > > > > > Nov 19 14:45 : output: Failed to enable "MPD Pulse Output" [pulse]: > > > > > pa_context_connect() has failed: Connection refused > > > > > Nov 19 14:45 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while > > playing > > > > > "PointBreak-StandTough.mp3" > > > > > > > > > > Setting up pulseaudio to listen on TCP locally as in the wiki works, > > but > > > > I > > > > > never needed to do that before. Can anyone else verify this? Is it > > > > perhaps > > > > > logind related (worked fine before this last pulseaudio update)? > > > > > > > > You're running mpd from systemd? I believe it's because PulseAudio now > > > > uses $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse instead of /tmp/pulse-XXXXXX, > > > > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pulse instead of $HOME/.pulse, and > > > > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pulse/cookie instead of $HOME/.pulse-cookie. > > > > > > > > mpd has no session, so these variables are not set, unlike the session > > > > you login to. > > > > > > > > This should be sent upstream (bugs.freedesktop.org). > > > > > > > > > > Hi Jan, thanks for the reply. Sorry for the slightly clueless follow-up, > > > but it's unclear to me whether 'upstream' here refers to pulseaudio, > > > systemd, or mpd. Or even whether its actually wrong behaviour. > > > > > > My understanding of your explanation is that there's no clear > > > responsibility. mpd does not use (or require) a session, the locations > > > pulse uses are fairly standard (I've always hated apps using ~/.foo)... > > > > This was recently discussed: > > http://arunraghavan.net/2012/11/pulseconf-2012-report/ > > > > Does not look like anything has come of it yet. I guess it might make sense > > to ask advice from the PA guys though, they would hopefully have an idea. > > > > Tom > > > > Thanks Tom, I'll ask on their ML. > > Is the user that's supposed to be able to use mpd in the audio group? If not, it may help to add the user to audio. Earlier I couldn't get pulseaudio to stop blocking my audio for vlc and mplayer until I fixed this group membership problem. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash
