[pulseaudio-discuss] Odd behaviour with remote startX session

[Anil Seth]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Lennart
Poettering<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 28.06.09 17:44, Anil Seth (seth.anil at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> > When you switch vt, console kit notices this and will change the ACL
>> > literally as you switch vt, thus giving you permission again. You can test
>> > this easily by doing the following in a perminal in the X session: sleep 5;
>> > paplay /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
>> >
>> The console kit changing permissions is very useful. My wife and I are
>> often logged in together and now a common sound server is not an
>> irritant any more.
>>
>> It is clear now that switching to tty7 makes ConsoleKit remove the
>> permissions to the audio even though it is owned by the correct user.
>>
>> crw--w----. 1 anil anil 4, 7 2009-06-28 17:27 /dev/tty7
>>
>> I suppose it looks like a distribution issue and I should raise it in Fedora.
>
> Most likely your startx session is not registered properly in
> ck. Check with "ck-list-sessions" if that sessoin shows up properly
> and assigned to the correct user and vt. Only then the ACL stuff will
> work correctly.
>
> Also make sure you don't run PA as root.
>
> If you don't want to use HAL's ACL feature consider making yourself a
> member of the "audio" group.
>

Making the user a part of the audio group does not help. It would
appear that tty7 is not associated with any session. I have raised it
as a bug in ck for fedora 11.

Thanks and regards
Anil