profiles for evince and possibly other programs prevent pulseaudio autospawn

[steubens]

[35537.458500] type=1400 audit(1285747964.348:28): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=2469 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/bin/pulseaudio" pid=4724 comm="threaded-ml" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=0

if pulseaudio isn't running (hey, it can happen!) apparmor can interfere with its normal autostart mechanism in any given app

this has actually been causing some ugly user facing problems on maverick (10.10) for me

[steubens (steubens)]

apparmor:/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/gnome should probably be changed to include pulseaudio things, as any time a desktop app tries to make a beep or anything, pulseaudio is restarted automatically, if it happens to be evince then it will fail to start and it's hard to see what is wrong

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Thanks for the bug. This is quite old now and actually something in the Ubuntu policy. Please file a bug there if you are still having this issue.