[pulseaudio-discuss] System wide simultaneously multi user audio not working

[Markus]

I know the reason now.

For every session, i need to turn my hdmi receiver off and on again, and
then all sessions can use the system wide pulseaudio.

Without that, the sessions put the audio to the pa device, but the sound
is not hearable...

doesn't really make sense.. but well...

Wish you a nice day



Am 19.03.19 um 11:11 schrieb Markus:
> nevermind, it spontaneously started to work without changing anything...
> 
> Am 19.03.19 um 01:40 schrieb Markus:
>> Hi Pulseaudio-list
>>
>> I would like to simultaniously use the same audio device from two
>> simultaniously logged in users on the same machine by using the system
>> wide setup. I know about the security shortcomings.
>>
>> After configuring, the process list shows that the pulseaudio process
>> only runs system wide as "pulse" user now. And the users don't spawn
>> their own process. So it looks fine and the audio works. The volume
>> status is shared too :-)
>>
>> But as soon as I switch to another x11 console with a different user,
>> then the audio from the other console stops working, even despite using
>> this system wide setup.
>>
>> Question: Is there anything more I can do? For example from a
>> ConsoleKit/systemd/hal/udev perspecitve?
>>
>> I need the x11 sessions so not prevent the other sessions to play audio.
>> because I assume, the pulseaudio server should be ready to use for all
>> of the users...
>>
>> The users are in the pulse-access group as needed. As a test, I also
>> tried to put the users into the audio group, although I thought it
>> should not be necessary. Didn't work.
>>
>> Linux intel 4.18.0-16-generic
>> Ubuntu 18.10
>> pulseaudio 12.2
>>
>> Pulseaudio is started by:
>> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --system --disallow-exit
>> --disallow-module-loading --realtime --log-target=journal
>>
>> I would be glad for any tips. I tried for hours and hours...
>> I slowly starting considering buying a second computer for background
>> playback stuff and mix the streams by hardware...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Markus
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