Thanks for your reply, Tanu. Could you please clarify what kind of session do you have in mind, how would I check for a list of these sessions? I'll proceed with my troubleshooting from there. Apparently, all I need is to make openvt to create a session. 2014-09-18 5:48 GMT-04:00 Tanu Kaskinen <tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com>: > On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 11:27 -0400, Alex K wrote: > > Hi team, > > > > > > I have a puzzling question crossing PulseAudio and systemd-logind > > behavior. In short, if you open a new virtual terminal with sudo > > openvt -vlu, there will be no sound in it, because dynamic ACL > > on /dev/snd/* doesn't include your account. > > > > > > How to reproduce: > > 1. Switch to first VT and login (Ctrl+Alt+F1) > > 2. Open a new virtual terminal: sudo openvt -vlu (it is likely going > > to be tty8) > > 3. Switch to tty8: Ctrl+Alt+F8 > > 4. Try to play a sound: play /path/to/wav/file.wav > > > > > > Play command will be stuck until you switch to another VT: ACLs get > > updated, sound gets played in the background. > > > > > > What would be a good way to fix it? > > PulseAudio doesn't have any control over the ACLs, the systemd mailing > list would be the right place to ask. > > FWIW, I tried the steps you gave on Fedora 20, and I observed the same > behaviour. I'm not sure this is a bug, however. The ACLs are set based > on who has an active session on the seat. When you logged in in tty1, a > new session was created, and it was marked as active. When you created a > new tty with openvt, no new session was created. When you switched to > the new tty, the session on tty1 was marked as inactive, and since there > was no session bound to tty8, from logind's point of view no session was > active, hence no access to the sound card for anyone. > > The question is that should a new session be created when creating a new > tty with openvt. I don't know the answer to that. (Another alternative > would be to tie the session on tty1 also to tty8, but I don't think that > makes sense.) > > -- > Tanu > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20140918/9b98fc6a/attachment-0001.html>
