[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#567605: pulseaudio: complains about system mode with no way to disable

[Paul Menzel]

Am Freitag, den 29.01.2010, 20:16 -0800 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian:

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> when running pulseaudio from ltsp, it produces a lot of messages to syslog:
> 
>   Jan 29 19:08:02 ltsp20 pulseaudio[1733]: main.c: OK, so you are running PA in sy
>   stem mode. Please note that you most likely shouldn't be doing that.
>   Jan 29 19:08:02 ltsp20 pulseaudio[1733]: main.c: If you do it nonetheless then i
>   t's your own fault if things don't work as expected.
>   Jan 29 19:08:02 ltsp20 pulseaudio[1733]: main.c: Please read http://pulseaudio.o
>   rg/wiki/WhatIsWrongWithSystemMode for an explanation why system mode is usually
>   a bad idea.

Are those messages just printed once, every time a user connects or for
another event?

> so, i go to the URL mentioned, and it gives a reasonable explanation about why
> it's bad. that's all good, but then it explains the valid use case:
> 
>   So why have it then?
> 
>   System mode is around for usage on thin client or embedded setups, wher no real
>   local user exists, where access is exclusively via the network, and where state
>   data is flushed on each session termination.
> 
> so, i happen to be using it for a thin client system, LTSP... but there appears
> to be no way to quiet it if you're using --system in the mentioned valid use
> case... i could set the log level, but then i might miss messages i actually
> want about other issues. hrm.

That looks like something which should be reported/discussed/fixed
upstream. Could you please write a message to pulseaudio-discuss.


Thanks,

Paul


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