When per-user pulseaudio instance is started at xsession login, further login by same user breaks pulseaudio from appearing on dbus. Steps to reproduce: 1. Login to xsession 2. Open xterm and issue: ~ $ qdbus | grep -i pulse Expected output should be similar to: org.PulseAudio1 org.pulseaudio.Server 3. Logout and back into xsession 4. Open xterm and issue: ~ $ qdbus | grep -i pulse No output, pulseaudio is not present on dbus Unloading/loading the module-dbus-protocol using pactl does succeed but unfortunately pulseaudio will still not appear on dbus. Only workaround found so far is to pkill pulseaudio process and restart it at each login by changing line in /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop from: Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11 to be instead: Exec=sh -c "pkill pulseaudio; start-pulseaudio-x11" Thanks :)
Does the problem occur also if you wait for more than 20 seconds after logging out? I don't think we shut down immediately after logging out, which is a problem if dbus-daemon shuts down immediately, but we shouldn't stay around indefinitely either. 20 seconds is the default time we wait after the last client has disconnected. Synchronizing the starting and stopping of user services seems like something that the session manager should do. Is the pulseaudio pid the same in both sessions, and is the dbus-daemon pid different? Note that if you have multiple simultaneous sessions from the same user, and there's a separate dbus-daemon for each of them, that's not likely to ever work. (Your description doesn't sound like you're trying to have simultaneous sessions, though.)
(In reply to Tanu Kaskinen from comment #1) > Does the problem occur also if you wait for more than 20 seconds after > logging out? I don't think we shut down immediately after logging out, which > is a problem if dbus-daemon shuts down immediately, but we shouldn't stay > around indefinitely either. 20 seconds is the default time we wait after the > last client has disconnected. Synchronizing the starting and stopping of > user services seems like something that the session manager should do. No, if I wait >20 seconds before logging in again then pulseaudio appears on dbus with no problem on the 2nd login. > Is the pulseaudio pid the same in both sessions, and is the dbus-daemon pid > different? Both pulseaudio and dbus-daemon pid's are different in each session. > Note that if you have multiple simultaneous sessions from the same user, and > there's a separate dbus-daemon for each of them, that's not likely to ever > work. (Your description doesn't sound like you're trying to have > simultaneous sessions, though.) Right, not trying to have simultaneous session from same user.
> Is the pulseaudio pid the same in both sessions, and is the dbus-daemon pid > different? Sorry I should clarify. When the problem occurs (logout/login within 20 seconds), pulseaudio's pid stays the same and the dbus session pid changes. When logout/login after waiting >20 seconds, both pulseaudio and dbus session pid's change. Thanks :)
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