[sf-lug] THIS SUNDAY, May 3, 11 AM, SF-LUG ZOOM vrtual meeting

[jim]

probably you're right, but i think the
owner  alex  may reveal a startup problem.
somewhere in the pulseaudio web pages
(one of the two links I sent) there's
mention that pulseaudio has its own
group and, I believe, owner. Group and
owner permission mismatches make up a
lot of problems. You might check your
system log files to see if there are
complaints about pulseaudio start ups.


On 5/3/20 6:32 PM, Alex Kleider wrote:
> On 2020-05-03 18:19, jim wrote:
>> note in your output of ps aux  that the owner
>> of  pulseaudio --daemon=no  is  alex  and not
>> gdm.
>
> In the spirit of staying 'lean' I used xdm rather than gdm.
> I was under the impression that it is gnome that leaves the large foot 
> print.
> Am I wrong?
> a
>
>>
>>
>> here's my /etc/pulse/client.conf
>>
>> root at Ultralap-6440:~# cat /etc/pulse/client.conf
>> # This file is part of PulseAudio.
>> #
>> # PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 
>> published by
>> # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>> # (at your option) any later version.
>> #
>> # PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
>> # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
>> # General Public License for more details.
>> #
>> # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 
>> License
>> # along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>>
>> ## Configuration file for PulseAudio clients. See 
>> pulse-client.conf(5) for
>> ## more information. Default values are commented out.  Use either ; 
>> or # for
>> ## commenting.
>>
>> ; default-sink =
>> ; default-source =
>> ; default-server =
>> ; default-dbus-server =
>>
>> ; autospawn = yes
>> ; daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio
>> ; extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog
>>
>> ; cookie-file =
>>
>> ; enable-shm = yes
>> ; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default,
>> usually 64 MiB
>>
>> ; auto-connect-localhost = no
>> ; auto-connect-display = no
>>
>>
>>
>> heres my /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
>>
>> root at Ultralap-6440:~# cat /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
>> # This file is part of PulseAudio.
>> #
>> # PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 
>> published by
>> # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>> # (at your option) any later version.
>> #
>> # PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
>> # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
>> # General Public License for more details.
>> #
>> # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 
>> License
>> # along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>>
>> ## Configuration file for the PulseAudio daemon. See 
>> pulse-daemon.conf(5) for
>> ## more information. Default values are commented out.  Use either ; 
>> or # for
>> ## commenting.
>>
>> ; daemonize = no
>> ; fail = yes
>> ; allow-module-loading = yes
>> ; allow-exit = yes
>> ; use-pid-file = yes
>> ; system-instance = no
>> ; local-server-type = user
>> ; enable-shm = yes
>> ; enable-memfd = yes
>> ; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default,
>> usually 64 MiB
>> ; lock-memory = no
>> ; cpu-limit = no
>>
>> ; high-priority = yes
>> ; nice-level = -11
>>
>> ; realtime-scheduling = yes
>> ; realtime-priority = 5
>>
>> ; exit-idle-time = 20
>> ; scache-idle-time = 20
>>
>> ; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)
>>
>> ; load-default-script-file = yes
>> ; default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa
>>
>> ; log-target = auto
>> ; log-level = notice
>> ; log-meta = no
>> ; log-time = no
>> ; log-backtrace = 0
>>
>> ; resample-method = speex-float-1
>> ; avoid-resampling = false
>> ; enable-remixing = yes
>> ; remixing-use-all-sink-channels = yes
>> ; enable-lfe-remixing = no
>> ; lfe-crossover-freq = 0
>>
>> flat-volumes = no
>>
>> ; rlimit-fsize = -1
>> ; rlimit-data = -1
>> ; rlimit-stack = -1
>> ; rlimit-core = -1
>> ; rlimit-as = -1
>> ; rlimit-rss = -1
>> ; rlimit-nproc = -1
>> ; rlimit-nofile = 256
>> ; rlimit-memlock = -1
>> ; rlimit-locks = -1
>> ; rlimit-sigpending = -1
>> ; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
>> ; rlimit-nice = 31
>> ; rlimit-rtprio = 9
>> ; rlimit-rttime = 200000
>>
>> ; default-sample-format = s16le
>> ; default-sample-rate = 44100
>> ; alternate-sample-rate = 48000
>> ; default-sample-channels = 2
>> ; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right
>>
>> ; default-fragments = 4
>> ; default-fragment-size-msec = 25
>>
>> ; enable-deferred-volume = yes
>> deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 1
>> ; deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0
>>
>>
>> and here's gdm in /etc/passwd
>> root at Ultralap-6440:~# grep gdm /etc/passwd
>> gdm:x:121:125:Gnome Display Manager:/var/lib/gdm3:/bin/false
>>
>>
>> I can't find a file in /etc/* that starts up pulse.
>> I tried
>> # grep pulse /etc/rc*.d/*
>> <nothing>
>> and I tried
>> # grep pulse /etc/init.d/*
>> <nothing>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/3/20 5:28 PM, Alex Kleider wrote:
>>> On 2020-05-03 15:58, jim wrote:
>>>> Jim's notes re PulseAudio:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> PulseAudio ("pulse") was news to me, thank you.
>>>> The docs on the web page seem well-written to me.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/
>>>> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/About/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here's how it looks on my system:
>>>>
>>>> root at Ultralap-6440:~# ls -l /etc/pulse
>>>> total 20
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1201 May 21  2018 client.conf
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2366 May 21  2018 daemon.conf
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5091 May 21  2018 default.pa
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2046 May 21  2018 system.pa
>>>>
>>>> root at Ultralap-6440:~# ps aux | grep ulse
>>>> gdm       1175  0.0  0.0 1415668 11308 ?       Ssl  Apr29 0:00
>>>> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
>>>> jim       1630  2.4  0.1 2483320 18936 ?       S<l  Apr29 142:19
>>>> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
>>>> root     23512  0.0  0.0  21536  1088 pts/0    S+   15:39 0:00 grep
>>>> --color=auto ulse
>>>>
>>>> root at Ultralap-6440:~# ls /usr/bin/*ulse*
>>>> /usr/bin/pulseaudio  /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
>>>>
>>>> root at Ultralap-6440:~# man pulseaudio
>>>
>>> I can't seem to get "pulseaudio --start" to work:
>>> alex at x1:~$ ls -lA /etc/pulse
>>> total 24
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1201 Aug 15  2019 client.conf
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 21 17:50 client.conf.d
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2374 Aug 15  2019 daemon.conf
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4933 Aug 15  2019 
>>> default.pa                          -13
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2078 Aug 15  2019 system.pa
>>> alex at x1:~$ ps aux | grep ulse
>>> alex      1492  1.0  0.6 650092 27420 ?        S<sl May02 15:45 
>>> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
>>> alex      5825  0.0  0.0   6076   892 pts/0    S+   17:19 0:00 grep 
>>> ulse
>>> alex at x1:~$ which pulseaudio
>>> /usr/bin/pulseaudio
>>> alex at x1:~$ pulseaudio --start
>>> alex at x1:~$ ps aux | grep ulse
>>> alex      1492  1.0  0.6 650092 27420 ?        S<sl May02 15:45 
>>> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
>>> alex      5944  0.0  0.0   6076   824 pts/0    S+   17:21 0:00 grep 
>>> ulse
>>>
>>> I expect to soon give up this endeavor and turn to antiX or mxlinux 
>>> (as suggested _but not advocated_ by Rick:-)

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