[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#529989: pulseaudio: cannot start: dbus error

[Xavier Bestel]

On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 19:35 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 07:38:45PM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > since 0.9.15 my sound server can't start anymore. Here's what I've got in the logs:
> > 
> > May 22 19:32:21 awak pulseaudio[4556]: main.c: Le démon s'exécute en mode système, désactivation forcée du mode SHM. 
> > May 22 19:32:21 awak pulseaudio[4556]: main.c: Le démon s'exécute en mode système, désactivation forcée de la fermeture après délai d'inactivité. 
> > May 22 19:32:22 awak pulseaudio[4557]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 30,00 ms 
> > May 22 19:32:22 awak pulseaudio[4557]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 40,00 ms 
> > May 22 19:32:23 awak pulseaudio[4557]: main.c: Failed to acquire org.pulseaudio.Server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.7" is not allowed to own the service "org.pulseaudio.Server" due to security policies in the 
> > configuration file 
> > 
> > .. and no sound.
> 
>   Are you running pulseaudio in system wide mode or in the user session?

It's running in system mode.
But I'm sorry I made a mistake: the sound is working. It's just that I
have a second (unconnected) sound card which pulseaudio decided is the
default output now. Manually specifying the output works.

	Xav