Failed to acquire org.pulseaudio.Server

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.