[pulseaudio-discuss] mpd not listed anywhere

Matt Zagrabelny mzagrabe at d.umn.edu
Tue Jun 15 13:36:40 PDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 21:42 +0200, Jan Steffens wrote:
> The easiest way to rectify this would be to run mpd as mzagrabe.

Thanks!

That works, and is what I did, though one would think there was a better
way.

Cheers,

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe at d.umn.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 20:47 +0200, Jan Steffens wrote:
> >> Which users are mpd and pulseaudio running as, and which user are you?
> >
> > $ ps -ef | grep mpd
> > mpd 9595      1  0 12:53 ? 00:00:27 /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf
> > mpd 10639     1  0 13:36 ? 00:00:03 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
> > mpd 10644 10639  0 13:36 ?
> > 00:00:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
> >
> > Looks like pulse and mpd are running as user 'mpd'. I am user
> > 'mzagrabe'.
> >
> >> Is pulseaudio running in system mode?
> >
> > I don't believe so.
> >
> > $ grep system /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
> > /etc/pulse/daemon.conf:; system-instance = no
> > /etc/pulse/daemon.conf:; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use
> > the system-default, usually 64 MiB
> >
> > I would assume that pulse should be running as 'mzagrabe' and I ought to
> > give some permissions to user mpd?
> >
> > Or what is the best way to rectify this?
> >
> > Thanks for the quick help.
> >
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