padsp only works when pulseaudio server is local

[Tobias Oetiker]

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release: 12.04

the following line in padsp makes that it works only if there is a local pulseaudio process running

$ grep pgrep /usr/bin/padsp
if `pgrep -f /usr/bin/pulseaudio 1>/dev/null` ; then

This breaks for thinclient setups with a remote pulseaudio server.

So if you want to check, you may rather want to check for the presence of the
PULSE_SERVER and PULSE_COOKIE environment variables.

[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 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]