[arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

[Tom Gundersen]

On Nov 19, 2012 10:27 AM, "Oon-Ee Ng" <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com
>wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > Hi, Pulseaudio from [testing] just updated to 2.99.2-1, now mpd audio
> > > output (running mpd as my own user) fails with the following:-
> > >
> > > Nov 19 14:45 : output: Failed to enable "MPD Pulse Output" [pulse]:
> > > pa_context_connect() has failed: Connection refused
> > > Nov 19 14:45 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while
playing
> > > "PointBreak-StandTough.mp3"
> > >
> > > Setting up pulseaudio to listen on TCP locally as in the wiki works,
but
> > I
> > > never needed to do that before. Can anyone else verify this? Is it
> > perhaps
> > > logind related (worked fine before this last pulseaudio update)?
> >
> > You're running mpd from systemd? I believe it's because PulseAudio now
> > uses $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse instead of /tmp/pulse-XXXXXX,
> > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pulse instead of $HOME/.pulse, and
> > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pulse/cookie instead of $HOME/.pulse-cookie.
> >
> > mpd has no session, so these variables are not set, unlike the session
> > you login to.
> >
> > This should be sent upstream (bugs.freedesktop.org).
> >
>
> Hi Jan, thanks for the reply. Sorry for the slightly clueless follow-up,
> but it's unclear to me whether 'upstream' here refers to pulseaudio,
> systemd, or mpd. Or even whether its actually wrong behaviour.
>
> My understanding of your explanation is that there's no clear
> responsibility. mpd does not use (or require) a session, the locations
> pulse uses are fairly standard (I've always hated apps using ~/.foo)...

This was recently discussed:
http://arunraghavan.net/2012/11/pulseconf-2012-report/

Does not look like anything has come of it yet. I guess it might make sense
to ask advice from the PA guys though, they would hopefully have an idea.

Tom