FS#37582 - [libpulse] Disabled autospawn caused issues with KDE

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Shimi Chen (shimi) - Friday, 01 November 2013, 13:39 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Friday, 01 November 2013, 14:31 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

This commit from April 1st 2013:
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/pulseaudio&id=fc89abba5f19e768397f4188a59028a8a17c434c

Disabled autospawn in /etc/pulse/client.conf by default. This is not the default upstream behavior.
This causes an issue in KDE where KMix fails to connect to pulseaudio at boot and thus loads incorrectly.

See:
1. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=167358
2. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326947

The responding KDE developer mentioned in the bug report:
"I would advise you guys to poke your relevant distro people about ensuring autospawn is enabled by default (which it is upstream). This isn't the only place where problems related to that will be exposed."

I added a line in the PulseAudio wiki page to document this issue and instruct KDE users to enable autospawn. However, I feel that since this is an issue introduced due to divergence from default upstream configuration, it might be a better option to revert this change and not disable autospawn by default. This would also be more in-line with https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux#Source_Integrity .
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Friday, 01 November 2013, 14:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#37572 

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