Hi,
I've tried a bunch of the online guides, and I find the following
problem. I am running Debian Buster on a raspberry pi with pulseaudio 12.0
Note that I don't need to run as root. I just need to auto-start, and
that usually requires running a service (systemd), and I've specified
not using the root user.
When I attempt to launch my pulseaudio service, I get the following:
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ===
Authentication is required to start 'pulseaudio.service'.
Authenticating as: root
Password:
polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Failed to start pulseaudio.service: Access denied
Appreciated hints would be: how to run a PulseAudio application in a way
that it auto-start and auto-restart ( it runs on the command line for a
lot of hours so maybe I'm just good with auto-start ). I have written
the C code directly to pulseaudio myself so if there anything in terms
of PulseAudio connect options that's great.
* I am OK running as my user ( the default user on the raspberry pi ) *
I have tried:
Running 'pulseaudio' as my user
Running my app as my user
I have not yet monkeyed with different pulseaudio configuration settings.
Thanks in advance, this is a great library for headless art projects and
my source will be available. I will certainly write up the results,
probably for StackOverflow as an even more search-friendly source....
-brian
On 8/26/2019 7:31 AM, Brian Bulkowski wrote:
Hi!
Heaving read how bad headless is, and how it's "rarely" needed and may
not work, I was a bit blase about running my interactive art
installation from systemd.
After all, systemd allows me to run as a user.
When I run as a non-interactive user, I get a "pulseaudio can't
connect", which is an errno 6. This happens from systemd, after
everything's started, I'm just debugging so I'm running my systemctl
start mylousy.service....
From what I read here, the aversion to running as a service is
security, and if I run as a user everything should be fine, but it is
the connect call that failing.
Regrettably I'm at a place with limited connectivity, but any tips
would be welcome, or at least for the next person who is trying to run
a perfectly reasonable headless installation.
Thanks & Regards,
-brian
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