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Bug 1269104 - pulseaudio not started when logging in as root
Summary: pulseaudio not started when logging in as root
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: pulseaudio
Version: 7.2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Wim Taymans
QA Contact: Desktop QE
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1272241 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 1104057 1190227 1252514
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-06 10:56 UTC by Rainer Koenig
Modified: 2015-11-19 09:29 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pulseaudio-6.0-7.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-11-19 09:29:18 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2015:2106 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE desktop core libraries bug fix and enhancement update 2015-11-19 09:34:35 UTC

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
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