On Sat, 2018-05-19 at 22:32 +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: > Le 19/05/2018 à 18:47, Tanu Kaskinen a écrit : > > Since the address contains the machine id, I'm pretty sure the address > > is from the X server. > > Bingo! That's it! > In fact, I'm managing this via a ssh -X > (the idea is to manage audio applications on the distant machine, not on > the local one) > > $ unset DISPLAY > $ PULSE_LOG=99 pacat > Parsing configuration file '/etc/pulse/client.conf' > Parsing configuration file > '/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf' > Using shared memfd memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, > total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472 > Trying to connect to /var/run/pulse/native... > Failed to open cookie file '/home/clohr/.config/pulse/cookie': No such > file or directory > Failed to load authentication key '/home/clohr/.config/pulse/cookie': No > such file or directory > Failed to open cookie file '/home/clohr/.pulse-cookie': No such file or > directory > Failed to load authentication key '/home/clohr/.pulse-cookie': No such > file or directory > Got 0 bytes from cookie file '/home/clohr/.config/pulse/cookie', > expected 256 > SHM possible: yes > Protocol version: remote 32, local 32 > Negotiated SHM: no > Memfd possible: yes > Negotiated SHM type: private > > This seems ok, isn't it? > But why does the client tries X11 stuff despite '/etc/pulse/client.conf' > which says 'default-server = /var/run/pulse/native' ? I don't know, maybe the thinking was that the variables in X are sort of similar to environment variables, so they should override the configuration file. I agree with you that it doesn't seem like a very good idea. I'll send a patch that changes the ordering. > > I don't know what you mean by "via pam.d", though. > > This: > > $ sudo netstat -lxp | grep pulse > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 474424 > 23106/systemd /run/user/65534/pulse/native > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 477788 > 23070/systemd /run/user/33/pulse/native > unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 720251 > 8555/systemd /run/user/1000/pulse/native > > > this due to /etc/pam.d/systemd-user & co. isn't it ? > /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket > /usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pulseaudio.socket Yes. > (systemd includes too much sorcery for me) > > > If you're using the system-wide mode, I think it's best to disable all > > per-user pulseaudio services in systemd. I'm not sure how to do that, > > maybe "sudo systemctl --global disable pulseaudio.socket > > pulseaudio.service" does the trick. This should also prevent the wrong > > address getting stored in X, because when start-pulseaudio-x11 tries to > > load module-x11-publish, that will fail because systemd didn't start a > > pulseaudio daemon for the user. > > Should I disable module-x11-publish ? No, you can't disable it. Not cleanly, anyway. You could remove it from /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11... But what I think you should do is disabling the pulseaudio user service in systemd, using the command that I already gave: sudo systemctl --global disable pulseaudio.socket pulseaudio.service If you are using pulseaudio in the system-wide mode, you don't want systemd starting user instances as well. -- Tanu https://liberapay.com/tanuk https://www.patreon.com/tanuk