No audio with PulseAudio system instance

[sbeaulieu]

My Linux setup with a NoMachine server runs the pulse audio server as a system instance (i.e. system-instance=yes in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf). When the audio server is started it runs as user ‘pulse’.

Now when I connect to the NoMachine server from another machine, I use a different user (i.e. not user ‘pulse’) to authenticate. The problem is that audio does get sent to the NoMachine client. If I run ‘pactl list sources’ on the NoMachine server, it verified that the nx audio devices are not created.

The only way I can get it to work is if I create an non-system instance of the pulse audio server that is launched from the same user that I authenticate with the NoMachine client. In this case the nx audio devices are created and audio works. Is this a limitation or is there a setting somewhere that I am missing?

[kroy]

Hi.

Please edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf

change daemonize = no to daemonize = yes
change system-instance = no to system-instance= yes

– edit /etc/default/pulseaudio

change PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=0  to PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1

– delete .pulse in your home directory and do the same fore other users

– reboot the system

If the problem still apears, please extract logs: sudo tar cvfz NoMachine-log.tar.gz /usr/NX/var/log/node and send them to forum[at]nomachine[dot]com. Make sure that you are connected to session during collection of the logs (in case SessionLogClean is disabled).

[sbeaulieu]

Thank you for the assistance. I updated daemon.conf, but I didn’t have /etc/default/pulseaudio so I tried running once without it, then again when I created the file and added PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1.

I verified that audio could be heard on the server, but it is still not heard on the client. I will send the logs as instructed. Thanks!

[sbeaulieu]

I think I’m closer to a solution. I added the ‘nx’ user to the ‘pulse-access’ group, which seemed to eliminate the ‘/bin/pactl no found’ error messages I was getting in the log. The other error I have is that “pactl load-module  module-cli-protocol-unix socket=…” is failing with error “Unable to open cli socket.” I have ports 4000/tcp and 4309/udp open in the firewall. Is there anything else I need?

[kroy]

Please verify if following /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg keys are set like there:

AudioInterface pulseaudio
CommandStartPulseAudio "/usr/bin/pulseaudio --high-priority=no"

Check also if pulseudio is in the /usr/bin/pulseaudio on the system

Restart nxserver (sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --restart) to make changes effect.

If problem will still appears enable debug (nxserver and nxnode) on server side, reproduce problem and send logs to forum[at]nomachine[dot]com? Instructions about debug and collecting logs you can find there: https://www.nomachine.com/DT10O00162#1.

Please send also output of the pactl_list command (pactl list > pactl_list.log).

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