On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, at 10:00 AM, Marco Trapanese wrote: > Hello, > on Debian Jessie I'm running pulseaudio 8.0 in user mode (i.e. > pulseaudio -D). > > In order to run other applications I need to set: > > > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket > > but now pulseaudio refuses to start: > > > Failed to acquire org.PulseAudio1: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.27" is not allowed to own the service "org.PulseAudio1" due to security policies in the configuration file > > Here the /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf contents: > > > <busconfig> > > > > <!-- System-wide PulseAudio runs as 'pulse' user. This fragment is > > not necessary for user PulseAudio instances. --> > > > > <policy user="pulse"> > > <allow own="org.pulseaudio.Server"/> > > </policy> > > > > </busconfig> > > but as far as I understand this file is useless because I'm running > pulseaudio as "pi" user. > > It returns to work if I unset the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS variable. > Please, would you help me to understand what's happening? The default configuration allows you to listen on the system bus in system-wide mode, that's why the config is set up that way. -- Arun
