From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40544: Pulseaudio is not looking for user configuration
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:00:37 +0200
Message-ID: <87h7xbthne.fsf@gnu.org>
References: <20200410182025.0fb30500@runbox.com> <877dyfik0x.fsf@GlaDOS.home>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Return-path: <bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59908)
 by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1)
 (envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1jRLYN-0003jX-99
 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:01:03 -0400
Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1)
 (envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1jRLYM-0005Vo-EF
 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:01:03 -0400
Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:41833)
 by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128)
 (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>)
 id 1jRLYM-0005Vc-2E
 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:01:02 -0400
Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2)
 (envelope-from <Debian-debbugs@debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1jRLYM-0006rU-0s
 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:01:02 -0400
Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <handler.40544.B40544.158758564926343@debbugs.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <877dyfik0x.fsf@GlaDOS.home> (Diego Nicola Barbato's message of
 "Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:26:38 +0200")
List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/bug-guix>,
 <mailto:bug-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix>
List-Post: <mailto:bug-guix@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:bug-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guix>,
 <mailto:bug-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org
Sender: "bug-Guix" <bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>
To: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>
Cc: pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com>, 40544@debbugs.gnu.org

Hi Diego,

Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de> skribis:

> pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com> writes:
>
>> Pulseaudio doesn't read my user configuration files according to strace.
>>
>> Attached is the output of `strace -o /tmp/log.log pulseaudio` - It only
>> looks for /etc/pulse/daemon.conf.
>
> That's a known [0] (but AFAIK undocumented) side effect of the
> PulseAudio service, which was added to %desktop-services in January [1].
> If you want PulseAudio to read your user configuration files you'll have
> to remove that service from your system services or unset PULSE_CONFIG
> and PULSE_CLIENT_CONFIG in ~/.profile [2].

It would be good to document that, right below
=E2=80=98pulseaudio-service-type=E2=80=99.  Would you like to give it a try=
, Diego?

Or alternately, is there a way we can arrange so that the user=E2=80=99s co=
nfig
takes precedence over /etc/pulse?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.