Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.21-3 Severity: important I've got PulseAudio 0.9.21 running on this Debian testing system and also on an LFS system. On the LFS system, I can route all ALSA-generated sound through PulseAudio with the following ~/.asoundrc:
--- # Sound output as a normal user always goes via PulseAudio. pcm.pulse { type pulse server music.srvr.nix } ctl.pulse { type pulse server music.srvr.nix } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } --- On the Debian system, this doesn't work: PA fails to start, as below (this is reported on behalf of one of my users, hence the differing usernames below): Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: core-util.c: Failed to acquire high-priority scheduling: No such file or directory Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.21 Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: Machine ID is 93e440dd1e6926bc3940785e4b1a753c. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: Session ID is 93e440dd1e6926bc3940785e4b1a753c-1279471234.423891-1494667676. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: Using runtime directory /home/martin/.pulse/93e440dd1e6926bc3940785e4b1a753c-runtime. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: Using state directory /home/martin/.pulse. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-0.9.21/modules. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: Running in system mode: no Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: Fresh high-resolution timers available! Bon appetit! Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: cpu-x86.c: CPU flags: MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4_1 Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: svolume_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized functions. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: remap_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized remappers. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: svolume_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized functions. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: remap_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized remappers. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: sconv_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized conversions. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module-device-restore.c: Sucessfully opened database file '/home/martin/.pulse/93e440dd1e6926bc3940785e4b1a753c-device-volumes'. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Loaded "module-device-restore" (index: #0; argument: ""). Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module-stream-restore.c: Sucessfully opened database file '/home/martin/.pulse/93e440dd1e6926bc3940785e4b1a753c-stream-volumes'. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Loaded "module-stream-restore" (index: #1; argument: ""). Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module-card-restore.c: Sucessfully opened database file '/home/martin/.pulse/93e440dd1e6926bc3940785e4b1a753c-card-database'. Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Loaded "module-card-restore" (index: #2; argument: ""). Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Loaded "module-augment-properties" (index: #3; argument: ""). Jul 18 17:41:44 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: socket-client.c: socket(): Address family not supported by protocol Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29397]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: (alsa-lib)pulse.c: PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device default: Connection refused Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed. Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: Module load failed. Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Unloading "module-device-restore" (index: #0). Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Unloaded "module-device-restore" (index: #0). Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Unloading "module-stream-restore" (index: #1). Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Unloaded "module-stream-restore" (index: #1). Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Unloading "module-card-restore" (index: #2). Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Unloaded "module-card-restore" (index: #2). Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Unloading "module-augment-properties" (index: #3). Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: module.c: Unloaded "module-augment-properties" (index: #3). Jul 18 17:41:49 phoenix pulseaudio[29388]: main.c: Daemon terminated. stracing reveals that the ALSA PulseAudio plugin is trying to open a connection to PulseAudio *even though it is running inside PulseAudio itself*. As a result, I can only start the plugin if I move .asoundrc out of the way first. Now the plugin and daemon contain workarounds for this in the form of the PULSE_INTERNAL environment variable, which the latter sets and the former checks for. This doesn't seem to be working in Debian's copy. If there's any more information I can provide, just ask. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii consolekit 0.4.1-4 framework for defining and trackin ii libasound2 1.0.23-1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcap2 1:2.17-2 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-9 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libltdl7 2.2.6b-2 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii libpulse0 0.9.21-3 PulseAudio client libraries ii libsamplerate0 0.1.7-3 Audio sample rate conversion libra ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libsndfile1 1.0.21-2 Library for reading/writing audio ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex extended runtime library ii libudev0 158-1 libudev shared library ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxtst6 2:1.1.0-3 X11 Testing -- Record extension li ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii udev 158-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends: ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.23-4 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio ii libasound2-plugins 1.0.23-1 ALSA library additional plugins ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.21-3 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer ii pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.21-3 X11 module for PulseAudio sound se Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests: pn paman <none> (no description available) pn paprefs <none> (no description available) ii pavucontrol 0.9.9-1 PulseAudio Volume Control pn pavumeter <none> (no description available) ii pulseaudio-utils 0.9.21-3 Command line tools for the PulseAu -- Configuration Files: /etc/pulse/default.pa changed (because udev often had trouble finding our sound cards in days of yore: this may be fixed now for all I know): .nofail .fail load-module module-device-restore load-module module-stream-restore load-module module-card-restore load-module module-augment-properties load-module module-alsa-sink .ifexists module-udev-detect.so load-module module-udev-detect .else load-module module-detect .endif .ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so load-module module-bluetooth-discover .endif .ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so load-module module-esound-protocol-unix .endif load-module module-native-protocol-unix .ifexists module-gconf.so .nofail load-module module-gconf .fail .endif load-module module-default-device-restore load-module module-rescue-streams load-module module-always-sink load-module module-intended-roles load-module module-suspend-on-idle load-module module-console-kit load-module module-position-event-sounds load-module module-cork-music-on-phone -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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