gnome-system-tools and a bug fix

[Chris Coulson]

On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 22:05 -0800, Erik Andersen wrote:

> Hi.
> Bug #433654 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/433654)
> is about audio not working properly on karmic and lucid when multiple
> users are used (one user gets to the audio device first and no one
> else can use it). Eventually it was figured out that if users aren't
> part of the audio group and consolekit is installed everything works
> properly. However, the defaults for a desktop user and an
> administrator users is to have them in the audio group which causes
> this problem. However, if consolekit isn't installed, you have to be
> part of the audio group to play sound. However, ubuntu-desktop depends
> on consolekit so it is rather reasonable to assume that it will be
> installed.
> So, to fix the bug, should the default administrator and desktop users
> be removed from the audio group?
> (This was basically asked at
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+question/103004
> , but it hasn't been answered yet, and I doubt the people who would
> know the answer have seen it.)
> Thanks,
> Erik B. Andersen
> 

Hi,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This issue has been
annoying me for a while now as well, so I'm glad that the issue is
understood. As the first user is no longer part of the audio group, it
makes sense that we don't add subsequent users to the audio group too,
so I will do the gnome-system-tools change to fix this this today.

Thanks!

Chris
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