Bug 48728 - starts systemwide and sessionwide Pulseaudio daemons in system wide mode
Summary: starts systemwide and sessionwide Pulseaudio daemons in system wide mode
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: PulseAudio
Classification: Unclassified
Component: daemon (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: pulseaudio-bugs
QA Contact: pulseaudio-bugs
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Reported: 2012-04-15 04:09 UTC by Martin Steigerwald
Modified: 2018-07-30 09:37 UTC (History)
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Description Martin Steigerwald 2012-04-15 04:09:24 UTC
I have running Pulseaudio system wide:

merkaba:~> grep -B1 SYSTEM /etc/default/pulseaudio
# Geht nur richtig mit exit 0 am Anfang von /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-{kde,x11}
PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1


Still I get system wide and session wide Pulseaudio daemons:

martin@merkaba:~> ps aux | grep pulse | grep -v grep
pulse     1073  0.0  0.0 230828  3700 ?        S<l  Apr14   0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --daemonize --high-priority --log-target=syslog --disallow-module-loading=0
martin    2330  0.0  0.0 235048  5616 ?        Sl   Apr14   0:42 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start


I know I put "exit 0" at that of /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-{kde,x11}, but on update of Pulseaudio this is lost. I might be able to add a dpkg diversion on it. but I do think I shouldn´t have to be doing this.


Why do I use system-wide mode although it is not recommended? I have two user sessions. One my private, one my work one. The music is on the private one. And I like to hear music with ear phones at work at times. The pulseaudio on my private session stops playing when I switch to the work session.


I use Debian Sid with:

martin@merkaba:~> apt-show-versions | egrep "(pulseaudio|gstreamer)"
bluez-gstreamer/sid uptodate 4.99-2
gstreamer0.10-alsa/sid uptodate 0.10.36-1
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg/sid uptodate 0.10.13-3
gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3/sid uptodate 0.10.15.debian-1
gstreamer0.10-gconf/sid uptodate 0.10.31-1+b1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad/sid uptodate 0.10.23-1+b1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base/sid uptodate 0.10.36-1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good/sid uptodate 0.10.31-1+b1
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio/sid uptodate 0.10.31-1+b1
gstreamer0.10-x/sid uptodate 0.10.36-1
libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0/sid uptodate 0.10.23-1+b1
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0/sid uptodate 0.10.36-1
libgstreamer0.10-0/sid uptodate 0.10.36-1
libqtgstreamer-0.10-0/sid uptodate 0.10.1-2.1+b1
libqtgstreamerui-0.10-0/sid uptodate 0.10.1-2.1+b1
phonon-backend-gstreamer/sid uptodate 4:4.6.0.0-1
phonon-backend-gstreamer-dbg/sid uptodate 4:4.6.0.0-1
projectm-pulseaudio/sid uptodate 2.0.1+dfsg-12+b1
pulseaudio/sid uptodate 1.1-3+b1
pulseaudio-esound-compat/sid uptodate 1.1-3+b1
pulseaudio-module-x11/sid uptodate 1.1-3+b1
pulseaudio-utils/sid uptodate 1.1-3+b1
qtgstreamer-plugins/sid uptodate 0.10.1-2.1+b1
martin@merkaba:~> cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (Debian 3.3-1~experimental.1) (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-1) ) #1 SMP Thu Mar 22 18:02:10 UTC 2012
Comment 1 Martin Steigerwald 2012-04-15 04:54:08 UTC
I also posted this as

[pulseaudio-discuss] using pulseaudio with simultaneous playback from mutiple X sessions

and there has been quite some discussion in there.
Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-07-30 09:37:22 UTC
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