ltsp and sound

[Matt Johnson]

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> From: Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme at gmail.com>
>To: "edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2013, 20:06
>Subject: ltsp and sound
> 
>Hi all,
>
>I am giving ltsp on edubuntu a test run after many years of not
>looking at ltsp. I have problems getting the sound to work properly.
>My server is an edubuntu version 12.10 running in Virtualbox. It
>mostly works when using a diskless Virtualbox virtual machine as thin
>client and booting it from the ltsp server.
>
>I also have a Dell laptop that I can boot over the network. I test
>with the default audio application, rhythmbox. There's no error from
>rhythmbox on the laptop, but also no sound ;) the timer stays at 0:00.
>In syslog there is a line that says "[pulseaudio] sink-input.c: Failed
>to create sink input: sink is suspended." This log line appears before
>opening any sound application. There is no firewall on the server.
>
>(it also appears that with a
>
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I'm no expert but I wonder if the laptop is booting as a fat client because it's a capable machine? I seem to recall that I had to add the following line to my lts.conf file to make sound work with fat clients. I may be remembering this incorrectly.

SSH_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS = false


This is documented at the bottom of the following page, where pulseaudio is mentioned.

I hope that helps.

--
Matt