[Thinlinc-technical] rdesktop pulse support

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Peter,

Today Peter Astrand wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
>
> > > > found the problem ... looking at /usr/bin/padsp I find
> > > >
> > > > if `pgrep -f /usr/bin/pulseaudio 1>/dev/null` ; then
> > >
> > > Wow, another of those Ubuntu "improvements"... Which Ubuntu version is
> > > this?
> > > Would it be possible for you to submit a bug report to
> > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+filebug ?
> >
> > sure
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1259508
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> > note though, customers rarely care whoes bug it is ... this is on
> > ubuntu 12.04.3 btw.
>
> The bug seems to be present even in the original 12.04 release. However,
> apparently it does not happen on all systems, since it's very common that
> *some* /usr/bin/pulseaudio process is running. On my virtual machine, for
> example, PulseAudio automatically starts after boot, even before login:
>
> lightdm   1377  3.2  0.6 343860  5212 ?        S<l  05:10   0:00
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
>
> After login on the console, I instead get a PA process for the logged in user.
> Thus, no problem on this machine. Perhaps you have a more minimal installation
> of Ubuntu, without GUI login?

certainly, our servers are headless

cheers
tobi

>
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