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zoqaeski

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From: /earth/australia/.

Registered: 2009-09-30

Posts: 133

[partial solved] su blocks sound

Since the last update, which included Linux 3.11 and systemd-207, if I have sound playing and su to root in a terminal window, my sound stops abruptly. Initially I thought it might have been Pulseaudio, but after trying everything that I could think of I ended up discovering this. Googling doesn’t help much though there is a bug report on the Fedora tracker from a few months ago that seems suspiciously similar to mine.

The aforementioned bug report suggests that `loginctl activate <my session>` will fix the issue, but offers no hints on why it might be happening.

Has anyone else encounted this?

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,176

Re: [partial solved] su blocks sound

Are you running a custom kernel where

zcat /proc/config.gz |grep CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL

does not report this setting to be enabled?