[pulseaudio-discuss] --check option seems not to work from su(1)

[David Henningsson]

On 2014-09-09 11:13, Glenn Golden wrote:
> David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com> [2014-09-09 09:56:43 +0200]:
>>
>> On 2014-09-08 20:44, Glenn Golden wrote:
>>>
>>> What's the magic incanation? Or am I entirely misinterpreting that such a
>>> thing is even possible?
>>
>> You need to load the module-native-protocol-tcp module, either using pactl
>> or through modifying the relevant .pa file.
>>
>> See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/#index22h3
>> for relevant options, e g if you want no security you need to give
>> auth-anonymous as an argument.
>>
>
> Hm. Still no joy.  Here's what I did:
>
> On hostA, using pactl, loaded the above module with 'auth-anonymous=1' option,
> and verified that the module shows up via "pactl list modules" (with the
> option listed).  Also verified that netstat now shows two listening tcp sockets
> on port 4713, one tcp4 and the other tcp6.
>
> Then on hostB, verified that it was possible to successfully connect to the
> PAD on hostA using netcat(1) via port 4713.  [This was just for purpose of
> verifying that socket would accept connections, not to actually try to talk
> to the PAD].  This netcat connection attempt succeeded, and netstat indeed
> showed the incoming connect from netcat.
>
> But then from hostB, tried  to contact the PAD using pactl like this:
>
>      $ pactl --server=hostA list
>
> and still get 'conn refused'.
>
> Also tried several alternative formats for the server specifier (per the
> textual ddescription of $PULSE_SERVER in pulseaudio.1):
>
> 	--server=tcp:hostA
> 	--server=tcp4:hostA
> 	--server=tcp6:hostA
>
> and then all of the above with the port number 4713 explicitly also given.
> Also tried specifying hostA via its dotted IP address instead of IP name,
> in case there was some local name lookup issue. In all cases, conn refused.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

I just tried the same thing here and it worked just fine, so no idea.

Maybe if you put pulseaudio in verbose log mode (run "pacmd 
set-log-level 4" on hostA), and then try "pactl --sever=tcp:hostA list", 
does anything interesting show up in /var/log/syslog ?


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