[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio for two sessions at the same time

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Noel David Torres Taño at 14/12/10 17:53 did gyre and
gimble:
> (continues here) I've deleted .pulse and .pulse-cookie to be sure, removed 
> both accounts from audio group and set them both in pulse-access group. Still 
> first session opened gets sound (even when changing sessions, so ConsoleKit is 
> not in the way) and secondly opened one gets no sound. May it be that extra PA 
> processes are opened? How to avoid that and get each session connect to the 
> system-wide PA?
> 
> $ ps -A u | grep pulse
> pulse    12594  0.0  0.1 273444  5132 ?        S<sl 16:52   0:01 
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --daemonize --high-priority --log-target=syslog 
> --disallow-module-loading=1
> user1    15671  0.0  0.1 218140  5144 ?        Ssl  17:41   0:00 
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
> user2    16193  0.4  0.0 335412  3868 ?        Ssl  17:45   0:00 
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
> user1   16306  0.0  0.0   9612   892 pts/1    S+   17:46   0:00 grep pulse

Hmm, interesting. pulseaudio --start should basically exit when a
system-wide instance is present IIRC.

I'll dig through the code and do some experiments to try and work out
what's going on. As I don't use system wide myself, I'm maybe missing
something. I'll try and get back to you soon.

Col

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