On 05/30/2012 10:32 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Armin K. wrote:
>> On 05/30/2012 09:54 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>>> On 05/30/2012 09:25 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Author: bdubbs
>>>> Date: 2012-05-30 13:25:32 -0600 (Wed, 30 May 2012)
>>>> New Revision: 10253
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>> Reordered xfce core packages.
>>>> Added dbus instructions to xfce4-session.
>>>>
>>>> Added a pulse user to pulseaudio instructions
>>>> for dbus communications.
>>> Hm, pulse user isn't necesary for pulseaudio in BLFS. It is used by
>>> pulseaudio system daemon which is not recommended to be run. In BLFS we
>>> don't provide any instructions for running pulseaudio as system daemon,
>>> so it isn't really necesary. Also, if you wish to keep it, you need to
>>> make pulse user member of audio group and you also need pulse-access
>>> group. Note that all of this is only necesary for system-wide daemon,
>>> not for per-user ones.
>>
>> Yeah ... Even if system daemon is not used, dbus will print a warning
>> about "unknown user: pulse" ... You can get rid of that one by removing
>> pulseaudio configuration file from /etc/dbus-1/system.d
>
> That was my problem. When starting xfce with:
>
> exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session xfce4-session
>
> I was getting the error. I don't really know how dbus is used by
> pulseaudio so I didn't want to arbitrarily remove the dbus
> pulseaudio-system.conf file.
>
> I'll go with more knowledgeable advice, but in the sense of educating
> users, I'd think a short paragraph saying why running pulseaudio as
> system daemon is not recommended.
>
> In any case, I didn't check the rendering of the page very well. As a
> minimum, that needs to be fixed.
>
> -- Bruce
>
From pulseaudio man page:
--system[=BOOL]
Run as system-wide instance instead of per-user. Please note
that this disables certain features of PulseAudio and is gener‐
ally not recommended unless the system knows no local users
(e.g. is a thin client). This feature needs special configura‐
tion and a dedicated UNIX user set up. It is highly recommended
to combine this with --disallow-module-loading (see below).
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