Bug#805414: gdm3: disable pulseaudio to prevent capturing A2DP sink on session start

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2017-07-02 23:43:55, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 02.07.2017 um 23:36 schrieb Antoine Beaupré:
>> On 2017-07-02 23:16:19, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
>>> Have you tested the workaround from the arch wiki and can you confirm it
>>> works?
>> 
>> I cannot, unfortunately, test this anymore, as I have disabled the
>> pulseaudio socket as directed earlier, with:
>> 
>> rm /var/lib/gdm3/.config/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pulseaudio.socket
>> 
>> I don't know what that was pointing to, so I can't quite restore that
>> behavior directly.
>
> That's from the postinst:
>
> UNIT=/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket
> USERUNITDIR=/var/lib/gdm3/.config/systemd/user
> if ! [ -L $USERUNITDIR/sockets.target.wants/pulseaudio.socket ]; then
>   mkdir -p $USERUNITDIR/sockets.target.wants
>   ln -sf $UNIT $USERUNITDIR/sockets.target.wants
> fi
>
> You can run that manually or simply re-install the gdm3 package so that
> code is run again.

Thanks! I believe I have rolled back the workarounds and implemented the
fix default.pa documented in the Arch wiki. Everything seems to work
normally now, ie. I can correctly connect through A2DP to my bluetooth
speaker.

(I have a different speaker than yesterday, mind you, but I am assuming
the problem is consistent across devices.)

A.

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