Description of problem: PA fails to detect bluez audio devices -- the nego proceeds through dbus, and dbus rejects messages from the pulse user. this is a pretty big oversight. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): latest 0.9.15-11 RPM How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start pa as system mode 2. presto, bluetooth does not work --------------- /var/log/messages snippet --------- May 8 20:57:08 karen dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 4 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.98" (uid=499 pid=2376 comm="pulseaudio --system ") interface="org.bluez.Manager" member="ListAdapters" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.bluez" (uid=0 pid=2268 comm="/usr/sbin/bluetoothd ")) May 8 20:58:47 karen pulseaudio[2402]: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-exit not set! May 8 20:58:47 karen pulseaudio[2402]: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-module-loading not set! May 8 20:58:47 karen pulseaudio[2402]: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode! May 8 20:58:47 karen pulseaudio[2402]: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling exit idle time! May 8 20:58:47 karen dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 4 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.99" (uid=499 pid=2402 comm="pulseaudio --system --realtime --log-target=syslog") interface="org.bluez.Manager" member="ListAdapters" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.bluez" (uid=0 pid=2268 comm="/usr/sbin/bluetoothd ")) May 8 20:58:47 karen pulseaudio[2402]: bluetooth-util.c: Error from ListAdapters reply: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied May 8 20:58:47 karen pulseaudio[2402]: main.c: Failed to acquire org.pulseaudio.Server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.99" is not allowed to own the service "org.pulseaudio.Server" due to security policies in the configuration file
On Fedora we configure PA for session mode for various reasons. We don't support system mode. Also your bug is unrelated to PA, it seems as if bluez disallows access to the pulse user. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 461546 ***