On 19.11.2012 08:08, Jan Steffens 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). > I've asked in #pulseaudio and you can use PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH to override XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, but I'm not sure how this could be fixed in our package. XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is supposed to be removed if the user logs out so you shouldn't put the pulse socket there if you want mpd to use it. -- Florian Pritz
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