[pulseaudio-discuss] disable warning message?

Arun Raghavan arun at accosted.net
Thu Jul 2 21:39:45 PDT 2015


On 3 July 2015 at 10:01, Andrew Kelley <superjoe30 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 9:28 PM Arun Raghavan <arun at accosted.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 2 July 2015 at 15:14, Andrew Kelley <superjoe30 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I get this message from libpulseaudio:
>> >
>> >> W: [] caps.c: Normally all extra capabilities would be dropped now, but
>> >> that's impossible because PulseAudio was built without capabilities
>> >> support.
>>
>> You can change the log target if you don't want this logging
>> (--log-target or the log-target setting in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf).
>
>
> This requires asking the end-user to change a value in a config setting. But
> I am not targeting end-users, I am writing a library, so my users are other
> developers, and they expect that this library will not affect their stdout
> or stderr streams.

You should not see this output client-side at all. Do you have any
existing changes to your config that causes the log to be written out
to stderr instead of the default syslog?

-- Arun


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