Bug 870899

Summary: paprefs cannot configure pulseaudio2 network modules
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Victor Costan <costan>
Component: paprefsAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Victor Costan 2012-10-29 06:54:21 UTC
Description of problem:
I installed pulseaudio-module-zeroconf (in fact, pulseaudio-module-*) on a fresh Fedora 18 install, and I can't get it set up as a server for streaming music. I installed and launched paprefs, but all the fields are grayed out.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.1-4.fc18
paprefs is 0.9.10-2.fc18

How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 18 Beta TC6 (or the latest beta)
2. yum install paprefs pulseaudio-module-*
3. Reboot and open paprefs, go to the tabs whose labels start with Network (first two tabs)

Actual results:
All the settings are grayed out.

Expected results:
The zeroconf-related settings should not be grayed out, and checking them should make my server discoverable by other pulseaudio systems that have zeroconf discovery enabled.

Additional info:
On a different machine, I upgraded from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18, and ran paprefs. The network-related preferences were also grayed out, but some checkboxes were checked, matching my old configuration. It isn't working as a sound server anymore, but it does still discover other servers via zeroconf. I used gconf-editor and messed with the settings under system/pulseaudio/remote-access, and confirmed that the changes are reflected in paprefs.

I'm guessing that pulseaudio2 stores some of its module configuration in a different place from the pulseaudio 1.19 that shipped with Fedora 17, and paprefs still uses the old place.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2012-10-29 22:24:17 UTC
paprefs-0.9.10-3.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/paprefs-0.9.10-3.fc18

Comment 2 Victor Costan 2012-10-29 23:14:30 UTC
The 0.9.10-3.fc18 update fixes this issue for me.