[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#465509: /usr/bin/pulseaudio: Ignores RT-setting in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf

[Johan Walles]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.8-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/pulseaudio


Pulseaudio ignores the realtime-scheduling configuration option in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, even though it can 
successfully read and understand the config file.  Note how it first complains about lack of permissions for 
RT even though it "was requested in the configuration", then says "realtime-scheduling = no":

"
johan at foo:~$ pulseaudio --dump-conf
N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. 
However, we lack the necessary priviliges:
N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us priviliges. Dropping SUID again.
N: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit priviliges, or become a 
member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
### Read from configuration file: /etc/pulse/daemon.conf ###
daemonize = no
fail = yes
high-priority = no
nice-level = -11
realtime-scheduling = no
[...]
"

  Regards //Johan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.105       add and remove users and groups
ii  libasound2                   1.0.15-3    ALSA library
ii  libasyncns0                  0.3-1       Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libc6                        2.7-6       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                      1:1.10-14   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.1.2-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libltdl3                     1.5.24-2    A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  liboil0.3                    0.3.12-1+b1 Library of Optimized Inner Loops
ii  libpulsecore5                0.9.8-2     PulseAudio sound server core
ii  libsamplerate0               0.1.2-5     audio rate conversion library
ii  libsndfile1                  1.0.17-4    Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libwrap0                     7.6.dbs-14  Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-24      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      0.9.7-2    GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.15-1   ALSA library additional plugins
ii  padevchooser                  0.9.3-2    PulseAudio Device Chooser
ii  paprefs                       0.9.6-1    PulseAudio Preferences
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat      0.9.8-2    PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-hal         0.9.8-2    HAL device detection module for Pu
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11         0.9.8-2    X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

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