[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#527016: pulseaudio: ConsoleKit integration calles GetUnixUser where the method does not exist

[Joerg Sommrey]

Same problem here.

After some digging in the source and in the dbus docs and after adding
some debugging output I got an impression about what is going on.  The
dbus error message »Method "GetUnixUser" with signature "" on interface
"org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session" doesn't exist« is simply
misleading.  If *any* method is called for a dbus object that doesn't
exist, the very same error message will be returned.  In the case of
pulseaudio there seem to be sessions that are too short-living to catch.
In my case I guess these are cron jobs.  I reckon this situation should
not be handled as an error in pulseaudio.  To get rid of these annoying
messages I changed their severity to "notice" and lowered pulseaudio's
log level to "warn" in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf.

-jo