[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #582: [PATCH] system-wide pulseaudio and module-hal-detect

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#582: [PATCH] system-wide pulseaudio and module-hal-detect
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 Reporter:  mgrela  |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new    
Milestone:          |   Component:  daemon 
 Keywords:          |  
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 Hi,

 I've recently encountered a problem with running a system-wide pulseaudio
 daemon for my HTPC together with module-hal-detect. The issue is, that the
 DBUS policy for system bus is to deny all remote method calls and name
 ownerships except where there is a policy defined for a process. This
 causes pulseaudio module-hal-detect to fail when communicating with HAL:

 {{{
 Jun 13 13:49:49 ix dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules;
 type="method_call", sender=":1.3" (uid=105 pid=1684
 comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --log-target=syslog --disallow")
 interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager" member="FindDeviceByCapability"
 error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
 (uid=0 pid=1576 comm="/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=yes "))
 Jun 13 13:49:49 ix pulseaudio[1684]: module-hal-detect.c: D-Bus error
 while parsing HAL data: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected
 send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.3" (uid=105
 pid=1684 comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --log-target=syslog --disallow")
 interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager" member="FindDeviceByCapability"
 error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
 (uid=0 pid=1576 comm="/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=yes "))
 }}}

 Pulseaudio is also unable to bind a DBUS name for itself:

 {{{
 Jun 13 13:59:57 ix pulseaudio[1683]: main.c: Failed to acquire
 org.pulseaudio.Server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection
 ":1.3" is not allowed to own the service "org.pulseaudio.Server" due to
 security policies in the configuration file
 }}}

 The attached dbus policy file fixes these problems and should be put into
 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/

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