<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Sadly the daemon refuses to start. When started from console without the log-level=0, the daemon seems to start, but I still can't get any sound out of the box.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Eric Viseur</div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/7/9 Reindl Harald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net" target="_blank">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Am 09.07.2013 16:01, schrieb Eric Viseur:<br>
<div class="im">> I'm currently working on a virtualization project using F18. One of the use cases is booting on the multi-user<br>
> systemd target, then starting the Spice client in a very restricted X environment by simply issuing<br>
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</div>> /$ xinit /usr/bin/spicec (some parameters)/<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> Everything works fine, except the sound : as I don't start a complete GDM in this boot scenario, PulseAudio isn't<br>
> loaded. I thus tried to start PulseAudio manually by issuing :<br>
><br>
</div>> /$ start-pulseaudio-x11/<br>
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> before starting xinit with the same user, but it doesn't work either. After testing a /$ pacat /dev/urandom/ from<br>
<div class="im">> the host on Fedora Virtualization team's advice, it turns out PA doesn't work at all.<br>
><br>
</div>> *So, here is my question : how to start PulseAudio correctly in such a setup (multi-user.target then xinit) ?*<br>
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> Please note that if I connect to the VM from a complete GDM in the graphical systemd target, everything works fine.<br>
><br>
> Thank you for your attention!<br>
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</div>system wide instance is your friend<br>
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[harry@rh:~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/pulsed.service<br>
[Unit]<br>
Description=Pulseaudio Daemon<br>
After=rtkit-daemon.service udev.service dbus.service<br>
<br>
[Service]<br>
Type=simple<br>
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=false --system=true --log-level=0 --log-target=stderr<br>
--disallow-module-loading=true --disallow-exit=true --exit-idle-time=0 --disable-shm=true --no-cpu-limit=false<br>
--use-pid-file=false --resample-method=src-sinc-best-quality<br>
Restart=always<br>
RestartSec=30<br>
TimeoutSec=15<br>
Nice=-10<br>
CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_SYS_PTRACE<br>
InaccessibleDirectories=/boot<br>
InaccessibleDirectories=/root<br>
<br>
[Install]<br>
WantedBy=multi-user.target<br>
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