Bug 747963 - pulseaudio no longer works on headless machines.
Summary: pulseaudio no longer works on headless machines.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pulseaudio
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-21 14:25 UTC by Dave Jones
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:31 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 16:18:52 UTC
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Description Dave Jones 2011-10-21 14:25:40 UTC
until recently, I could ssh into my headless music server and play music.
with the version of pulseaudio now in f16, this happens..

pulseaudio[8416]: main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11

Comment 1 Martin Dengler 2012-11-14 13:43:04 UTC
I get a different error on F17 (will try F18 soon), but the headline problem seems the same: is the below a different bug (or even just an ignorable warning?)

Nov 14 21:30:26 ops-13 pulseaudio[2538]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
Nov 14 21:30:26 ops-13 pulseaudio[2538]: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
Nov 14 21:30:26 ops-13 pulseaudio[2538]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.

Comment 2 Martin Dengler 2012-11-25 20:20:10 UTC
This seems to work:

 dbus-launch --exit-with-session pulseaudio --daemon

Comment 3 Martin Dengler 2012-11-25 21:03:13 UTC
ACLs are wrong on /dev/snd/*:


# ls -l /dev/snd/*
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116,  6 Nov 25 20:37 /dev/snd/controlC0
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116,  5 Nov 25 20:37 /dev/snd/hwC0D0
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116,  4 Nov 25 20:37 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116,  3 Nov 25 20:37 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116,  2 Nov 25 20:37 /dev/snd/pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116,  1 Nov 25 20:37 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116, 33 Nov 25 20:37 /dev/snd/timer

/dev/snd/by-path:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 12 Nov 25 20:37 pci-0000:00:1b.0 -> ../controlC0


ck-list-sessions doesn't show anything:

# ck-list-sessions 
# 

But systemd-loginctl is:


# systemd-loginctl list-sessions
   SESSION        UID USER             SEAT            
         1       1000 martin                           

1 sessions listed.


# rpm -q ConsoleKit ConsoleKit-x11 ConsoleKit-libs systemd
ConsoleKit-0.4.5-3.fc18.x86_64
ConsoleKit-x11-0.4.5-3.fc18.x86_64
ConsoleKit-libs-0.4.5-3.fc18.x86_64
systemd-195-7.fc18.x86_64


# cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)

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Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2013-02-13 16:18:55 UTC
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