Bug 1269104

Summary:	pulseaudio not started when logging in as root
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig>
Component:	pulseaudio	Assignee:	Wim Taymans <wtaymans>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	chorn, jeff.burrell, lmiksik, tpelka, vbenes, wtaymans
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Regression
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	pulseaudio-6.0-7.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-11-19 09:29:18 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1104057, 1190227, 1252514

Description Rainer Koenig 2015-10-06 10:56:01 UTC

Description of problem:
Testing RHEL 7.2 snapshot3 actually

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pulseaudio-module-x11-6.0-6.el7.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-6.0-6.el7.x86_64
pulseaudio-6.0-6.el7.x86_64
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-6.0-6.el7.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-6.0-6.el7.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.27-3.el7.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-6.0-6.el7.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-6.0-6.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL 7.2 snapshot3
2. Login as root
3. check sound settings

Actual results:
Sound config panel doesn't show any sound devices because pulseaudio is not running. If you try to play sound with "aplay <file>" then you get a message, that it can't connect to pulseaudio:

ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

aplay: main:722: audio open error: Connection refused

Expected results:
Pulsaudio starts also for the root user.

Additional info:
This behaviour is now similar to Fedora 22 and there are bugs for Fedora 22 already filed, but not resolved:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234710
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226141

Sound works perfectly when logging in as a "normal" user.

When you're still in the gdm login screen then pulseaudio is running as a process of gdm. Tried to login from a console and using aplay, but that doesn't work either.

So now RHEL 7.2 behaves exactly like Fedora 22. ;-) My fear is that this could affect the sound tests of redhat-hardware-certification.

Comment 3 Wim Taymans 2015-10-06 14:46:58 UTC

Autostart is disabled for root so pulseaudio doesn't automatically start on login. A rather easy fix is available for this.

Comment 6 Wim Taymans 2015-11-03 16:22:35 UTC

*** Bug 1272241 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 09:29:18 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2106.html