[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#508873: pulseaudio-utils: out of luck trying pacmd

[Ian Zimmerman]

Package: pulseaudio-utils
Version: 0.9.10-3
Severity: normal


pacmd seems to only know about the per-user unix socket, and not about
the system-wide unix socket /var/run/pulse/native, nor about the tcp socket.
Since it also accepts no command-line options, there seems to be no easy way
to control a a running systemwide daemon :(  I know about the pactl program,
but that doesn't allow all the control commands.

One of the commands not provided by pactl is "dump".  Which brings me to the
second, related, complaint:  there seems to be no way to save the state of
the pusleaudio mixer across reboot, similar to "alsactl store" and 
"alsactl restore". I was hoping to provide a home brewed solution with "dump"
and ".include".

I guess not all is lost because I can use a program like socat to connect to the
unix socket, but that is really taking the user-hostile side of pulse too far :)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.8matica2008112501 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio-utils depends on:
ii  libasyncns0                   0.3-1      Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libavahi-client3              0.6.22-3   Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3              0.6.22-3   Avahi common library
ii  libc6                         2.7-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                       1:1.10-14  support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libflac8                      1.2.1-1.2  Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.4-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libogg0                       1.1.3-4    Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libpulse-browse0              0.9.10-3   PulseAudio client libraries (zeroc
ii  libpulse0                     0.9.10-3   PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsm6                        2:1.0.3-2  X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.17-4   Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.1.5-2  X11 client-side library

pulseaudio-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pulseaudio-utils suggests:
pn  avahi-daemon                  <none>     (no description available)

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