Bug 476931

Summary:	pulseaudio system start should preclude pulseaudio per-x11 session start
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rudd-O DragonFear <rudd-o>
Component:	pulseaudio	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	lkundrak, lpoetter, pierre-bugzilla
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Description Rudd-O DragonFear 2008-12-18 02:08:57 UTC

Description of problem:

if pulseaudio is configured to run as a system daemon by a system integrator or terminal services manager, then the extra pulseaudio processes started up by the /etc/xdg/autostart dir are useless

the fix is straightforward:

/usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11:

add line

pgrep -f 'pulseaudio.*--system' > /dev/null && exit

before line

set -e

and that fixes the issue.

the gains for the user scenarios listed above are big.

Comment 1 Rudd-O DragonFear 2008-12-18 02:10:21 UTC

Here is a sample event.d upstart startup file for pulseaudio as a system service (just for reference purposes):

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start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]

exec pulseaudio --system --realtime --log-target=syslog

respawn

description "PulseAudio system server"

pre-start script
        for a in `seq 60` ; do
                sleep 1
                killall -0 hald && killall -0 dbus-daemon && break
        done
end script

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The pre-start script takes care of checking whether dbus is already up, which is needed for some pulseaudio featuers.

Comment 2 Rudd-O DragonFear 2008-12-18 02:10:38 UTC

Here is a sample event.d upstart startup file for pulseaudio as a system service (just for reference purposes):

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start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]

exec pulseaudio --system --realtime --log-target=syslog

respawn

description "PulseAudio system server"

pre-start script
        for a in `seq 60` ; do
                sleep 1start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]

exec pulseaudio --system --realtime --log-target=syslog

respawn

description "PulseAudio system server"

pre-start script
        for a in `seq 60` ; do
                sleep 1
                killall -0 hald && killall -0 dbus-daemon && break
        done
end script
                killall -0 hald && killall -0 dbus-daemon && break
        done
end script

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The pre-start script takes care of checking whether dbus is already up, which is needed for some pulseaudio featuers.

Comment 3 Rudd-O DragonFear 2008-12-18 02:11:18 UTC

disregard comment #2 please, my mouse is broken.

Comment 4 Lennart Poettering 2008-12-18 15:14:00 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 461546 ***