On Wed, 07.01.09 00:34, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote: > On Wed, 17.12.08 23:51, Chen, Hao H (hao.h.chen at intel.com) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Strange behavior for paplay. > > [As normal user] > > No pulseaudio daemon launched before, paplay audio file => caused new pulseaudio daemon launched automatically. > > [As root] > > No pulseaudio daemon launched before, paplay audio file, "connection refused" > > > > Please refer to attached logs of normal user and root. > > Tested on FC10, with pulseaudio 0.9.13 integrated. > > This is probably an issue with ConsoleKit not working in a su > environment. > > I have now filed a bug about this, so that I don't forget to have a > look on this: > > http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/450 Autospawning as root doesn't work because I added an explicit check to the code not to do autospawning as root. For security reasons I want to make sure that PA is not started automatically behind the administrators back so that we don't open potential security holes to the root account. Sorry, but I see no reason to reverse that decision. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
