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jaroslav

Member

Registered: 2007-11-02

Posts: 6

Failed to acquire org.pulseaudio.Server

Hi,
before filling a bug, I'd like to ask here:

Couple of days ago I've noticed that sound stopped to work completely. I'm using pulseaudio.

In /var/log/messages.log after startingI see following error:

Apr 26 23:08:37 myhostname pulseaudio[9698]: main.c: Failed to acquire org.pulseaudio.Server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.46" is not allowed to own the service "org.pulseaudio.Server" due to security policies in the configuration file

I've tried to find any info about it here or in bugzilla or in google - no results.

Everything is configured according to our (excellent!) wiki. Daemons are started, config files are OK, user is in necessary groups, channels are not muted, etc.
In 'paman' I see that pulseaudio server is started, looks like I'm connected, statistics are changing.

Any ideas?
thanks,
J.

mclabaut

Member

Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 41

Re: Failed to acquire org.pulseaudio.Server

Exactly same problem here.

pantaril

Member

Registered: 2009-06-03

Posts: 7

Re: Failed to acquire org.pulseaudio.Server

I had exactly the same problem.
I created file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio.conf with following content:

<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
        <policy user="pulse">
            <allow own="org.pulseaudio.Server"/>
            <allow send_destination="org.pulseaudio.Server"/>
            <allow receive_sender="org.pulseaudio.Server"/>
        </policy>
</busconfig>

I'm not sure if all of these rules are required, but now sound played trough pulseaudio works.

Hope this helps.

p.