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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:12:19 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] pulseaudio isn't work on buildroot-2017.02.5
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Hi Jonas, Thomas,

On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 22:48 -0700, Jonas wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> thank you for your reply.
> 
> I try to set "BR2_PACKAGE_PULSEAUDIO_DAEMON".
> 
> # ps
> ...
>   223 root     -sh
>   224 root     /sbin/getty -L tty1 0 vt100
>   256 pulse    pulseaudio --system --daemonize
>   260 root     ps
> 
> it seen works in system mode, but I want to use "pactl" command.
> I need set source and sink.
> 
> I get this error message:
> # pactl stat
> Connection failure: Access denied
> 
> #pactl list sources short
> Connection failure: Access denied
> 
> #pactl list sink short
> Connection failure: Access denied
> 
> Could you help me again.
> Thank you very much.

In case someone has the same issue. I got it working adding the root
user to the pulse-access group:

# grep pulse-access /etc/group
pulse-access:x:1006:pulse,root

@Thomas: Is this something we need to address if
BR2_PACKAGE_PULSEAUDIO_DAEMON is selected?

Best regards,
J?rg Krause