On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 15:09 -0400, Chris Morgan wrote: > I am trying to run as a system service, it's for an embedded system > and without x the normal dbus session per user doesn't make sense. > > > I had modified the service file to pass --system and pulse seemed > happier. Is this the recommended approach? Pulse does complain about > passing that option and running as root.
When using PulseAudio as a system service, you definitely need to either give --system and/or set "system-instance=yes" in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. Can you give the exact error or warning that you get? PulseAudio shouldn't complain about running as root when using --system. In fact, PulseAudio *must* be run as root when using --system. > After a few minutes the service did shut down. It may have been due to > configuring the loop back module though I'm surprised a > misconfiguration would have resulted in pulse shutting down. As Erik wrote, this sounds like the "exit on idle" mechanism kicking in, but when running in the system mode, that mechanism should automatically get disabled. It really sounds like you're still running without --system. One theory would be that you're starting pulseaudio with --system, but clients can't connect to it for some reason, and they then autospawn the user instance instead, so you get two instances running. If that's the case, setting "system-instance=yes" in daemon.conf should prevent this confusing behaviour, because any user instances will then refuse to start. (Sorry, I should have instructed you to edit daemon.conf in the first place instead of enabling the system mode via the command line parameter...) My understanding is that you're running also the PulseAudio clients as root, and that's not supported out-of-the box (I should probably fix that...). By default, only processes in the "audio" group can connect to the system instance, and root isn't in that group by default. You can either add root to the audio group, or disable client authentication altogether by passing "auth-anonymous=yes" to module-native-protocol-unix in /etc/pulse/system.pa, in which case all processes in the system can use and control the PulseAudio daemon. (For people reading this later in the list archives, note that the upstream default for the access group is "pulse-access", not "audio". Using "audio" is an OpenEmbedded thing. I hope we can get rid of that divergence at some point.) -- Tanu -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
