Pulseaudio strikes again!

[David A. De Graaf]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:59:30PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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> On 06/27/2012 10:57 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:24:05PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >> You may want to look into running PA as a system daemon instead of a
> >> user daemon.
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> > I have done so, and it didn't work. Specifically, I put these
> > commands into /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
> > # Start the pulseaudio daemon
> > /usr/bin/pkill -9 pulseaudio
> > /usr/bin/pulseaudio --kill
> > sleep 1
> > echo "/usr/bin/pulseaudio -D --system --log-target=syslog"
> > /usr/bin/pulseaudio -D --system --log-target=syslog
> > /usr/bin/play /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Im-Phone-Ring.ogg
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> You need to edit the files in /etc/pulse. You at lease need to
> modify the daemon.conf file. You will probably want uncomment
> daemonize and system-instance and change them to yes.

Thank you Mikkel, for your attempt to help.
I did edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to set these non-standard values:
  daemonize = yes
  use-pid-file = no
  system-instance = yes
but it didn't change anything.  I didn't see anything else in
/etc/pulse/* that seemed relevant.  The system daemon ran but remained
impervious to any sound generation by root or dad.  Curiously, skype
was able to produce its sound effects.

> 
> Mikkel

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        David A. De Graaf    DATIX, Inc.    Hendersonville, NC
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