Bug#714293: pulseaudio: Some applications fail when in system mode

[John McMonagle]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 2.0-6.1
Severity: important

Using pulsaudio in ltsp.
I'm upgrading the ltsp-client to wheezy from squeeze.
Under squeeze it worked fine. squeeze uses  pulseaudio 0.9.21-3+squeeze1.

This is the code that starts pulseaudio on the clent:
............................
               PULSE_DETECT=module-udev-detect
                PULSE_VOLUME_RESTORE=module-stream-restore
                /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system \
                --exit-idle-time=-1 \
                --disable-shm \
                --no-cpu-limit \
                --resample-method=trivial \
                --high-priority \
                --log-target=syslog \
                -L $PULSE_DETECT \
                -L "module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1" \
                -L $PULSE_VOLUME_RESTORE \
                -L module-rescue-streams \
                -L "module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1" \
                -n &
.....................................

Some applications work:
paplay
mplayer
dragon

The following fail:
vlc
kde system sounds.

When it fails pactl list   will show the source as SUSPENDED.
>From that point nothing works.

If I kill pulseaudio and start pulseaudio in user mode all aplications works.

Is this an inherent limitation in system mode or a bug?

I have tested this betwwen 2 wheezy boxes using the script above to start pulseaudio and have the same issues.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 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 depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                    0.4.5-3.1
ii  libasound2                    1.0.25-4
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.25-2
ii  libc6                         2.13-38
ii  libcap2                       1:2.22-1.2
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  libfftw3-3                    3.3.2-3.1
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.7.2-5
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.8-2
ii  libltdl7                      2.4.2-1.1
ii  liborc-0.4-0                  1:0.4.16-2
ii  libpulse0                     2.0-6.1
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.8-5
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.25-5
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-7
ii  libstdc++6                    4.7.2-5
ii  libsystemd-daemon0            44-11
ii  libsystemd-login0             44-11
ii  libtdb1                       1.2.10-2
ii  libudev0                      175-7.2
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing-0  0.1-2
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libx11-xcb1                   2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxcb1                       1.8.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.1-1+deb7u1
ii  lsb-base                      4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii  udev                          175-7.2

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.31-3+nmu1
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11     2.0-6.1
ii  rtkit                     0.10-2

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman             0.9.4-1
ii  paprefs           0.9.10-1
ii  pavucontrol       1.0-1
ii  pavumeter         0.9.3-4
ii  pulseaudio-utils  2.0-6.1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pulse/system.pa changed [not included]
( sent from my workstation that has bluetooth setup)
-- no debconf information