[K12OSN] Why PA system mode?
Jeff Siddall
news at siddall.name
Fri Aug 12 18:12:56 UTC 2011
Anyone know why the clients run pulseaudio in system mode? Here's an
excerpt from the client system log:
Aug 9 09:12:06 client-192 pulseaudio[1740]: main.c: OK, so you are
running PA in system mode. Please note that you most likely shouldn't be
doing that.
Aug 9 09:12:06 client-192 pulseaudio[1740]: main.c: If you do it
nonetheless then it's your own fault if things don't work as expected.
Aug 9 09:12:06 client-192 pulseaudio[1740]: main.c: Please read
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/WhatIsWrongWithSystemMode for an explanation
why system mode is usually a bad idea
I did read http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/WhatIsWrongWithSystemMode and sure
enough they say it is there for stuff like thin clients. However, the
reasons for it are really not that good: we _do_ have a real user, and
things like home directories typically _aren't_ flushed on each session
termination.
Further, since PA is really designed to be run as a user, could we
remove some headache by not having it tun in system mode (ie: not have
to fixup permissions etc.)?
The reason I am interested is that it appears system mode causes
problems with some pulse stuff like pulseaudio-equalizer.
Thanks,
Jeff
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