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#1 2013-07-10 11:32:55

Perfect Gentleman
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 222

[Solved] User should in audio group to access audio devices in Skype.

Hi,
My system is x86_64, KDE, no pulseaudio, Creative X-Fi Music.
2 day ago i found out that i can't make calls because i have "Problem with audio playback". Adding user in audio group solved the problem.
WTF? Wiki clearly says no to add user in any groups.
Reinstalling Arch didn't solved the problem, only adding user in audio group did.
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I got smth strange. It is needed to install alsa-utils, alsa-plugins, lib32-alsa-plugins, lib32-pulse, then uninstall all of them and also libpulse, alsa-lib, lib32-alsa-lib, then install libpulse, alsa-lib, lib32-alsa-lib .. . and the sound is here.
i removed user from audio group

Last edited by Perfect Gentleman (2013-07-10 14:20:51)

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#2 2013-07-10 12:05:55

mandog
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Re: [Solved] User should in audio group to access audio devices in Skype.

You have to be in audio video etc to make changes and use that applies to all linux distros arch does not hold your hand  its all in the wiki. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Us … tem_groups


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#3 2013-07-10 12:23:48

msthev
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Registered: 2012-04-05
Posts: 177

Re: [Solved] User should in audio group to access audio devices in Skype.

mandog wrote:

You have to be in audio video etc to make changes and use

Wrong, logind provides this access. Adding users to audio/video/storage/whatever is no longer needed.


@OP
Post the output of

$ loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID

Last edited by msthev (2013-07-10 12:23:59)

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#4 2013-07-10 12:34:17

lolilolicon
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Re: [Solved] User should in audio group to access audio devices in Skype.

@mandog
Not really, I'm using GDM/Gnome and my current user can do pretty much everything (mounting external disks, poweroff/reboot/syspend, etc.) despite being only in the users group and the user's own group.
I don't really know the technical details of the policy, but apparently nowadays the policy is not simply based on groups. So can somebody explain to me the policy settings that are at work? Polkit and systemd-logind maybe?

edit: @msthev thx for the info

Last edited by lolilolicon (2013-07-10 12:35:34)


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#5 2013-07-10 13:40:16

Perfect Gentleman
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Registered: 2012-10-25
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Re: [Solved] User should in audio group to access audio devices in Skype.

$ loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID
Id=1
Timestamp=Wed 2013-07-10 20:30:30 NOVT
TimestampMonotonic=27558959
DefaultControlGroup=systemd:/user/1000.user/1.session
VTNr=7
Display=:0
Remote=no
Service=kde
Leader=241
Audit=1
Type=x11
Class=user
Active=yes
State=active
KillProcesses=no
IdleHint=no
IdleSinceHint=0
IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0
Name=user_name

user is in audio group

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#6 2013-07-10 13:53:55

Trilby
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Re: [Solved] User should in audio group to access audio devices in Skype.

Logind only provides this access within a given tty session.  This will vary depending on how you start X.  If you use a display manager, I believe they take care of the new logind session.  If you use xinit/startx and you start X on *the same* tty as you launch it from, then you'll be under the same login session and these permissions will be provided.

If you use xinit/startx on tty1 but run X on tty7 (with the vt# option to X) then you will not get these permissions from logind, but will need to add your user to the relevant group(s).


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#7 2013-07-10 16:17:11

Perfect Gentleman
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 222

Re: [Solved] User should in audio group to access audio devices in Skype.

pacman -S lib32-libpulse alsa-plugins lib32-alsa-plugins alsa-utils
pacman -Rcssun lib32-libpulse alsa-plugins lib32-alsa-plugins alsa-utils
pacman -Rddun libpulse alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib
pacman -S libpulse alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib

problem is solved

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