[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio

[Lancelot du Lac]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.14-2
Severity: important

Yesterday I did a full-upgrade and there was an update of pulseaudio. Since then, all sounds which depend on pulseaudio can be played only as root.
For example, kaffeine only has sound as root when the xine engine plays through pulseaudio, but it works just fine as a user when the xine engine plays through alsa.

I tried to add my user to each of the 3 pulse groups, no effect. 
I tried to disactivate high priority in daemon.conf, no effect.

Starting the pulse server as root seems to solve the issue.
Now I'm going to try to start it as a daemon at boot-time.
Yet it seems to create security issues.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-lancelot-005-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                    0.3.0-2    framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2                    1.0.19-1   shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libasyncns0                   0.3-1      Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libc6                         2.9-4      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2                       2.16-2     support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.12-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgdbm3                      1.8.3-4    GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libltdl3                      1.5.26-4   A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  liboil0.3                     0.3.15-1   Library of Optimized Inner Loops
ii  libpolkit-dbus2               0.9-3      library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2                    0.9-3      library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libpulsecore9                 0.9.14-2   PulseAudio sound server core
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.7-2    audio rate conversion library
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.18-2   Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-1  The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libwrap0                      7.6.q-16   Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      0.9.7-2    GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.19-2   ALSA library additional plugins
ii  padevchooser                  0.9.3-2    PulseAudio Device Chooser
ii  paprefs                       0.9.6-2    PulseAudio Preferences
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat      0.9.14-2   PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-hal         0.9.14-2   HAL device detection module for Pu
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11         0.9.14-2   X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman                0.9.4-1             PulseAudio Manager
ii  pavucontrol          0.9.6+svn20080426-1 PulseAudio Volume Control
ii  pavumeter            0.9.3-1             PulseAudio Volume Meter
ii  pulseaudio-utils     0.9.14-2            Command line tools for the PulseAu

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