PulseAudio in restricted X environment

[Eric Viseur]

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.

Eric Viseur


2013/7/9 Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>

>
>
> Am 09.07.2013 16:01, schrieb Eric Viseur:
> > I'm currently working on a virtualization project using F18.  One of the
> use cases is booting on the multi-user
> > systemd target, then starting the Spice client in a very restricted X
> environment by simply issuing
> >
> > /$ xinit /usr/bin/spicec (some parameters)/
> >
> > Everything works fine, except the sound : as I don't start a complete
> GDM in this boot scenario, PulseAudio isn't
> > loaded.  I thus tried to start PulseAudio manually by issuing :
> >
> > /$ start-pulseaudio-x11/
> >
> > before starting xinit with the same user, but it doesn't work either.
>  After testing a /$ pacat /dev/urandom/ from
> > the host on Fedora Virtualization team's advice, it turns out PA doesn't
> work at all.
> >
> > *So, here is my question : how to start PulseAudio correctly in such a
> setup (multi-user.target then xinit) ?*
> >
> > Please note that if I connect to the VM from a complete GDM in the
> graphical systemd target, everything works fine.
> >
> > Thank you for your attention!
>
> system wide instance is your friend
>
> [harry at rh:~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/pulsed.service
> [Unit]
> Description=Pulseaudio Daemon
> After=rtkit-daemon.service udev.service dbus.service
>
> [Service]
> Type=simple
> ExecStart=-/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=false --system=true
> --log-level=0 --log-target=stderr
> --disallow-module-loading=true --disallow-exit=true --exit-idle-time=0
> --disable-shm=true --no-cpu-limit=false
> --use-pid-file=false --resample-method=src-sinc-best-quality
> Restart=always
> RestartSec=30
> TimeoutSec=15
> Nice=-10
> CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_SYS_PTRACE
> InaccessibleDirectories=/boot
> InaccessibleDirectories=/root
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
>
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