[PATCH] pulseaudio: Add audio group explicitly

[PATCH] pulseaudio: Add audio group explicitly

[Kyungjik Min]

From: Kyungjik Min <dpmin7@gmail.com>

Since pulseaudio-server requires the audio group, we explicitly add it.

When use useradd-staticids or do not use the default group in
base-passwd, an error will occur because the audio group is not defined.

NOTE: pulseaudio: Performing useradd with [--root
TOPDIR/tmp/work/cortexa72-poky-linux/pulseaudio/17.0/recipe-sysroot
--home-dir /var/run/pulse --gid 998 --groups audio,pulse
--no-create-home --system --shell /bin/false --uid 998 pulse]
useradd: group 'audio' does not exist
ERROR: pulseaudio: useradd command did not succeed.

Signed-off-by: Kyungjik Min <dpmin7@gmail.com>
---
 meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc
index 695f4b676d..16c142130b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ do_install:append() {
 }
 
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "pulseaudio-server"
-GROUPADD_PARAM:pulseaudio-server = "--system pulse"
+GROUPADD_PARAM:pulseaudio-server = "--system audio; --system pulse"
 USERADD_PARAM:pulseaudio-server = "--system --home /var/run/pulse \
                               --no-create-home --shell /bin/false \
                               --groups audio,pulse --gid pulse pulse"

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] pulseaudio: Add audio group explicitly

[Mathieu Dubois-Briand]

On Mon Sep 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM CEST, Kyungjik Min via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Kyungjik Min <dpmin7@gmail.com>
>
> Since pulseaudio-server requires the audio group, we explicitly add it.
>
> When use useradd-staticids or do not use the default group in
> base-passwd, an error will occur because the audio group is not defined.
>
> NOTE: pulseaudio: Performing useradd with [--root
> TOPDIR/tmp/work/cortexa72-poky-linux/pulseaudio/17.0/recipe-sysroot
> --home-dir /var/run/pulse --gid 998 --groups audio,pulse
> --no-create-home --system --shell /bin/false --uid 998 pulse]
> useradd: group 'audio' does not exist
> ERROR: pulseaudio: useradd command did not succeed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungjik Min <dpmin7@gmail.com>
> ---

Hi,

Thanks for your patch.

We get some build errors during the reproducibility test build:

2025-09-01 10:38:39,725 - oe-selftest - INFO -       ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'pulseaudio' (but /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/meta/recipes-graphics/libsdl2/libsdl2_2.32.8.bb, /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/meta/recipes-multimedia/mpg123/mpg123_1.33.0.bb, /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu_10.0.2.bb, /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-good_1.26.5.bb, /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-plugins_1.2.12.bb DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
2025-09-01 10:38:39,725 - oe-selftest - INFO -       pulseaudio was skipped: Recipe pulseaudio, package pulseaudio-server: system groupname "audio" does not have a static ID defined. Add audio to one of these files: /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/meta-selftest/files/static-group

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/37/builds/2397

Can you have a look at the issue please?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com