[pulseaudio-discuss] pacmd list Daemon not responding.

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 10:31 +0530, namittal at codeaurora.org wrote:
> I have restarted system and run only one pulseaudio in system mode and 
> pactl instead of pacmd.
> 
> / # pactl info
> Connection failure: Access denied
> 
> / # ps aux | grep -i pulse
>   2117 pulse      3:32 pulseaudio -D --system
>   2129 root       0:00 {grep} /bin/busybox /bin/grep -i pulse
> 
> any idea why this happening ?

When running in the system mode, users (including root) need to be in
the "pulse-access" group. In your case the correct group is probably
"audio", though, because you seem to be using openembedded, and in
openembedded the access group is configured to be "audio" for some
reason.

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Tanu

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