On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 10:31 +0530, namittal at codeaurora.org wrote:
> I have restarted system and run only one pulseaudio in system mode and
> pactl instead of pacmd.
>
> / # pactl info
> Connection failure: Access denied
>
> / # ps aux | grep -i pulse
> 2117 pulse 3:32 pulseaudio -D --system
> 2129 root 0:00 {grep} /bin/busybox /bin/grep -i pulse
>
> any idea why this happening ?
When running in the system mode, users (including root) need to be in
the "pulse-access" group. In your case the correct group is probably
"audio", though, because you seem to be using openembedded, and in
openembedded the access group is configured to be "audio" for some
reason.
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Tanu
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