Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio

[Dr. Robin Haunschild]

Hi,

on Tue, 08 04 14 15:54:27 Felipe Sateler wrote:

[...]

> > $ grep 119 /etc/passwd
> > speech-dispatcher:x:119:29:Speech Dispatcher,,,:/var/run/speech-
> > dispatcher:/bin/sh
> > $ grep 119 /etc/group
> > pulse-access:x:119:robin
> > 
> > I'm not aware that I am using speech-dispatcher. Maybe I just uninstall
> > the package speech-dispatcher and hope the problem will be gone. Or is
> > speech- dispatcher some system package needed by other applications?
> 
> This may be the problem. Does /etc/default/speech-dispatcher enable
> the speech dispatcher? I have RUN=no in that file. Please try
> disabling the speech dispatcher. Uninstalling might be more difficult

Right, I had RUN=yes, changed it into RUN=no, and restarted the system.

Now the pulseaudio process from speech-dispatcher has not been started. Also, 
I can play sound as expected. I tried a regular mp3 and ogg file as well as 
playing youtube and some local video, works fine. Thanks so much. Please feel 
free to close this bug.

However, I'd like to note that I did not set RUN=yes. Do I have to expect some 
disadvantage setting RUN=no? Is it possible to include in the post-install-
script of pulseaudio that RUN=no is set in  /etc/default/speech-dispatcher in 
case there is no general disadvantage?


Best regards,

Robin
-- 
Dr. Robin Haunschild
<H at unschild.de>