Remember that machinectl works only on distros with that broken piece of garbage called systemd. Em 31 de dez de 2016 11:12 AM, "mohammed rilwan" <rilwan03 at gmail.com> escreveu: > Thank You Darwish! > I googled the same question, but could not find perfect a answer as > machinectl! > > Regards > Rilwan > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07 at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 06:38:27PM +0530, mohammed rilwan wrote: > > ... > >> > >> [root at dhcp-xx ~]# pacmd list > >> No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. > >> > >> [root at dhcp-xx ~]# su svt -c 'pacmd list' > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/0) is not owned by us (uid 1000), but by > >> uid 0! (This could e g happen if you try to connect to a non-root > >> PulseAudio as a root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.) > >> No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. > >> > > > > That's because su and sudo are historically broken: > > > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/825#issuecomment-127917622 > > > > Use machinectl, the rather new and sane user switching command: > > > > $ machinectl shell svt at .host /usr/bin/pacmd > > > > This should work correctly as it passes through pam_systemd, which > > sets XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to the correct value on login. That way pacmd > > can find the needed pulse server socket under /run/user/1000/pulse. > > > > If your distribution does not have "machinectl shell" yet, you have > > two options. > > > > A) Do it manually; that is, something in the form of: > > > > $ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000/ runuser -u svt pacmd > > > > B) Modify su behavior to pass through pam_systemd.so. This way, > > "su svt -c pacmd" will work perfectly: > > > > session required pam_systemd.so > > > > Be careful of option (B) though; editing PAM files is always risky. > > Finally, you may like to run pulse in system mode actually. Running > > pulse in usermode UID 1000, then controlling it from root, sounds > > like a recipe for race conditions. > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Darwish > > http://darwish.chasingpointers.com > > > > -- > Mohammed Rilwan M > ModelEngineering College > Thrikkakara. > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20161231/a02718a5/attachment.html>