NetBSD Problem Report #47549

From martin@duskware.de  Sat Feb  9 12:28:16 2013
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Subject: pulseaudio failure
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>Number:         47549
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       pulseaudio fails to initialize
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Feb 09 12:30:00 +0000 2013
>Closed-Date:    Wed Mar 06 10:39:10 +0000 2013
>Last-Modified:  Thu Mar 07 09:45:02 +0000 2013
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Release:        NetBSD 6.99.16
>Organization:
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD night-owl.duskware.de 6.99.16 NetBSD 6.99.16 (NIGHT-OWL) #139: Fri Feb 8 21:04:17 CET 2013 martin@night-owl.duskware.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/NIGHT-OWL amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:

I use xfce (installed from pkgsrc) started from xdm via xfce4-session
in my ~/.xsession. Whenever I log in, the console is spammed with a
bunch of messages like this:

Feb  9 13:21:19 night-owl pulseaudio[759]: [(null)] module-hal-detect.c: Unable to contact DBUS system bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Feb  9 13:21:19 night-owl pulseaudio[759]: [(null)] module.c: Failed to load module "module-hal-detect" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Feb  9 13:21:19 night-owl pulseaudio[759]: [(null)] main.c: Module load failed.
Feb  9 13:21:19 night-owl pulseaudio[759]: [(null)] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.

Besides fixing that, it might be good to have an option to completely remove
sound support from xfce.

>How-To-Repeat:
s/a

>Fix:
n/a

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/47549 pulseaudio failure
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:48:29 -0600 (CST)

 (Forwarded from dieter with permission.)

 Hi Jeremy,

 To be honest, I'm not running xfce anymore and I'd like to be unlisted
 as maintainer. I thought Guillaume and Reinoud, who were packaging xfce
 4.8, would have taken over by now, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

 (Also, because I'm listed as maintainer in Makefile.common, it's
 inherited by all xfce plugins, most of which I never even used.)

 (more of my reply inline)

 On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:24:01 -0600 (CST)
 "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:

 > Please look at 
 > http://gnats.netbsd.org/47549
 > 
 > I think this may be xfce4-pulseaudio.

 I don't think anything in xfce (or at least the version in pkgsrc) uses
 pulseaudio? I can't even find an xfce4-pulseaudio package in pkgsrc (or
 with google even). No idea what causes pulse to start on Martins
 computer, I don't think it ever did for me with xfce.

 > Any thoughts on this?

 I think I had the same errors when I first used pulseaudio. I commented
 out hal-related parts in my ~/.pulse/default.pa. IIRC, I had to comment
 some other stuff too, before it wanted to run. I wondered whether
 everyone had to do this... Are you running pulse and did it work out of
 the box for you? 

 kind regards
 dieter

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/47549 pulseaudio failure
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:05:09 +0100

 On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 04:50:06PM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 >  I don't think anything in xfce (or at least the version in pkgsrc) uses
 >  pulseaudio? I can't even find an xfce4-pulseaudio package in pkgsrc (or
 >  with google even). No idea what causes pulse to start on Martins
 >  computer, I don't think it ever did for me with xfce.

 I found the knob:

  XFCE -> Settings -> Session and Startup

 On the "Application Autostart" tab there is "PulseAudio Sound System"
 check box.

 I have unchecked it now - which is good enough for me. This seems to be
 new with 4.8.

 Martin

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: obache@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:39:10 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
local configuration issue.


From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: obache@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/47549 (pulseaudio fails to initialize)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 09:35:05 +0100

 I disagree - for me it looks like the pkg defaults are wrong.

 Pulseaudio is enabled by default in xfce (which might be subject to
 discussion and personal taste) and it is pure luck that for my usage
 unchecking the config option is "good enough" (to make the annyoing
 error messages go away).

 However, the pulsaudio pkg should install to a usable state or give a
 hint what configuration is needed via a MESSAGE file.

 If you think this all works and I have some local configuration issue 
 preventing it working for me, could you please give me a hint where to
 start looking? I do not remember touching any related configuration, just
 installed the pkgs and found it not working.

 Martin

From: "OBATA Akio" <obache@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/47549 (pulseaudio fails to initialize)
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:57:38 +0900

 Your reported log said that dbus and/or hal are not available.
 Startup those daemons, or disable pulseaudio support.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/47549 (pulseaudio fails to initialize)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:40:21 +0100

 On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:00:10AM +0000, OBATA Akio wrote:
 >  Your reported log said that dbus and/or hal are not available.
 >  Startup those daemons, or disable pulseaudio support.

 Duh - and the dbus pkg even told me to do so.

 Thanks!

 Martin

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