Bug#758073: Pulseaudio won't install init script

[Jose David]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:31:57 -0400 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Net Kgk <netkgk at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Package: pulseaudio

> > Version: 5.0-6

> >

> > After update to 5.0-6 system init-script suddenly disappears.

> > I've read warning notice about running pulseaudio as system service

> > and find this totally inadequate, as per-user instances don't work as

> > expected, i.e. don't reproduce sound simultaneously and conflict all

> > the time with each other. So in order to keep it somehow useful,

> > init-script must be protected until pulseaudio will be removed from

> > repository.

>

> Yes, this is expected. As you note, system mode is not the recommended

> way to run pulseaudio. However, if you want to enable it, you can

> still fetch the script from /usr/share/doc/pulseaudio/examples.

>

> Closing as this is not a bug.


There are some legitimate use cases for running pulseaudio as a system-wide
daemon system.

Removing the init script breaks multiseat configurations. I have a
multiseat computer with Debian Jessie with pulseaudio configured in
system-wide mode; it is the most practical solution.

Yesterday I did a dist-upgrade, and lost pulseaudio's init script.
Pulseaudio per-user sessions were automatically started as configured in
/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-kde.desktop, and I completely lost audio in
all seats. Subsequently, I spent some time tracking the error to its source.

Until a multiseat-aware replacement for ConsoleKit et al is ready (possibly
using systemd's multiseat support), pulseaudio in system-wide mode is the
most pragmatic way to have sound in multiseat configurations.




Jose David Fernandez Rodriguez
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