Bug#858176: pulseaudio: module-combine is deprecated

[Felipe Sateler]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
<cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn < cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Control:tags -1 moreinfo
> > >>
> > >> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
> > >> <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com> wrote:
> > >> > Package: pulseaudio
> > >> > Version: 10.0-1
> > >> > Severity: normal
> > >> >
> > >> > I see these log messages:
> > >> >
> > >> > /var/log/user.log:Mar 18 22:43:50 debian pulseaudio[5682]: [pulseaudio] module.c: module-combine is deprecated: Please use module-combine-sink instead of module-combine!
> > >> > /var/log/user.log:Mar 18 22:43:50 debian pulseaudio[5682]: [pulseaudio] module-combine.c: We will now load module-combine-sink. Please make sure to remove module-combine from your configuration.
> > >> >
> > >> > but I can't find any 'module-combine' reference in the configuration
> > >> > files, neither under /etc/pulse nor ~/.pulse. I see though both libs:
> > >> >
> > >> > pulseaudio: /usr/lib/pulse-10.0/modules/module-combine-sink.so
> > >> > pulseaudio: /usr/lib/pulse-10.0/modules/module-combine.so
> > >> >
> > >> > are distributed. My conclusion is that the deprecated module-combine
> > >> > is loaded by default. What can I do to avoid seeing those messages?
> > >>
> > >> Do you have module-gconf loaded? It might have been loaded by
> > >> configuraton set via paprefs.
> > >
> > > Yes, `pactl list' shows it:
> > >
> > > Module #12
> > > Name: module-gconf
> > > Argument:
> > > Usage counter: n/a
> > > Properties:
> > > module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
> > > module.description = "GConf Adapter"
> > > module.version = "10.0"
> >
> > Do you have set in paprefs "output to all devices"?
>
> How would I go about to find that out?

Open the paprefs program, and check if you have set the option to play
to all devices. Disable that, and the warning should go away.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler