pulseaudio bluetooth bug
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdm3 (Debian) |
New
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Unknown
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gdm3 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-2-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Dec 20 20:49:05 2015
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in gdm3 (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
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?