Bug 885020

Summary:	The pulse-rt group doesn't exist by default, causing round-trips to the SSSD
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek>
Component:	pulseaudio	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	brendan.jones.it, lkundrak, lpoetter, orion, rdieter
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Description Jakub Hrozek 2012-12-07 10:07:03 UTC

Description of problem:
According the man pulseaudio(1), "membership of the calling user in this group decides whether real-time and/or high-priority scheduling  is enabled.". 

Apparently, the group is requested via the Name Service Switch during playback and if other Name Service Switch modules such as sss for the SSSD are configured, the pulse-rt group is queried from them as well.

I don't think that correct, because this is causing unnecessary load on the remote LDAP servers and in some cases unnecessary reconnection attempts.

Is there a reason the group is not present at all on the system rather than being present but empty?

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How reproducible:
pulseaudio-2.1-4.fc18.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1. play sounds
  
Actual results:
The requests for pulse-rt are bubbling all the way into the SSSD and then into the remote server query.

Expected results:
The pulse-rt group should be returned right away from libnss_files and only the membership in that group should determine the realtime playback.

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Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2014-01-23 13:17:53 UTC

Thanks, fix committed to rawhide,

%changelog
* Wed Jan 22 2014 Wim Taymans <wtaymans> - 4.0-12.gitf81e3
- Use the statically allocated UID and GID from /usr/share/doc/setup/uidgid (#1056656)
- The pulse-rt group doesn't exist (#885020)

Will likely get rolled into a f20 update sometime soon.

Comment 3 Orion Poplawski 2014-11-05 20:59:33 UTC

Really fixed for pulse-rt in pulseaudio-5.0-22.20141019git4971d.fc22