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

[Jude DaShiell]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
> 
> Thanks Tom, I'll ask on their ML.
> 
> 

Is 
the 
user 
that's 
supposed 
to 
be 
able 
to 
use 
mpd 
in 
the 
audio 
group? 
 
If 
not, 
it 
may 
help 
to 
add 
the 
user 
to 
audio. 
 
Earlier I couldn't get pulseaudio to stop blocking my audio for vlc and 
mplayer until I fixed this group membership problem. 
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