Bug 105857

Summary:	Autospawn fails on macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	brackeen
Component:	daemon	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	lennart
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Mac OS X (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description brackeen 2018-04-03 02:41:09 UTC

macOS 10.13 changed some rules around forking, which causes PulseAudio's autospawn to fail. 

Reproduction:
Assuming the daemon is not running, this will fail with "Connection refused":
$ pactl stat

Workaround: 
Set the environment variable OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY to YES
$ export OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES
$ pactl stat

Tested with 11.1 compiled for High Sierra from Homebrew.

Found the workaround here: http://sealiesoftware.com/blog/index.html

Comment 1 Tanu Kaskinen 2018-04-07 15:48:49 UTC

Since I don't use macOS myself, and probably there's nobody else either who would follow the bug tracker and use macOS, I decided to ask for help from some past contributors on the mailing list:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2018-April/029749.html

Let's see if anything comes out of that.

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-07-30 10:20:08 UTC

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