pulseaudio bluetooth bug

[Jeffery Wilkins]

I switched from Xfce using Lightdm to Gnome-Shell using gdm3 I noticed my bluetooth headset stopped working
after couple hours of google searching I found out its because there was or is 2 copies of pulseaudio running
one copy was running as my normal logged in user the other was gdm3
when I took steps to prevent gdm3 from starting a copy of pulseaudio by chmod'ing the pulseaudio binary to only allow my normal user my bluetooth headset started working again I was able to connect it and become the audio sink

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gdm 3.18.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-2.11-generic 4.3.0
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-2-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Dec 20 20:49:05 2015
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

as noted in the Debian bug, gdm needs pulseaudio for the accessibility screen reader etc. So it won't be suitable to just disable pulseaudio completely. I suppose there needs to be some way to transition the bluetooth connection to the user after login.

Can you file this bug upstream on the GNOME bug tracker?

[Jeffery Wilkins (djcanadianjeff)]

not sure I know how to file bugs upstream anyone else is welcome to

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-life in April 2019.

https://ubuntugnome.org/ubuntu-gnome-16-04-lts-is-here/
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