Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 466544
pulseaudio package is missing dependencies (and other surprises)
Last modified: 2008-12-18 10:11:39 EST
Description of problem: With pulseaudio installed gnome-session attempts to run /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 and gets the following error: /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11: line 26: /usr/bin/pactl: No such file or directory The problem is that /usr/bin/pactl comes from pulseaudio-utils package and nothing is forcing installing that. Apparently this does not make any real difference anyway as the next thing one gets: pulseaudio[4179]: module.c: Failed to open module "module-x11-publish": module-x11-publish.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and 'module-x11-xsmp' does not seem to be around either. BTW - another set pulseaudio caused errors looks like this: I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE. I: caps.c: Dropping root priviliges. I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE. N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary priviliges: N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us priviliges. Dropping SUID again. N: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit priviliges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user. W: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed by policy. W: core-util.c: setpriority(): Permission denied and errors, except of those prefixed with "I", disappear after an account in question is added to 'pulse-rt' group. Who is responsible for such additions? A sysadmin? Note that "priviliges" is misspelled. Thrice. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pulseaudio-0.9.13-2.fc10 How reproducible: always
The lines prefixed with W: are just warnings. You can safely ignore them. The "privilige" typos are now fixed upstream.
So, what is left here is: /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 from pulseaudio has unfulfilled requirements: - /usr/bin/pactl from pulseaudio-utils - /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-x11-xsmp.so and module-x11-publish.so from pulseaudio-module-x11 Perhaps subpackage content could/should be moved around? (I can't figure out what starts start-pulseaudio-x11)
/usr/bin/pactl is also missing on the KDE live images. So either pulseaudio should require pulseaudio-utils or pactl should be moved to pulseaudio package.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
In CVS start-pulseaudio-x11 and the XDG .desktop file that starts it are now moved to the p-m-x11 package. That package also now requires pulseaudio-utils. This should fix all reported problems. This will be part of the next RPM version I will upload to rawhide and F10.