Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked
On 1/24/25 13:33, Roger Price wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, eben@gmx.us wrote:
>
>> On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>
>>> 2) At least one of my environment variables is required:
>>>
>>> So then the question is *which* environment variable it is. I would
>>> suspect it's one of the XDG_ variables,
>>
>> I did it the other way, by seeing which I remove to make the audio stop
>> working. Probably easier in case there were more than one. Anyhow my
>> testing shows the critical variable to be XDG_RUNTIME_DIR .
>
> I found that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is necessary but not sufficient. I added
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" to my personal crontab, but this did not
> solve the problem. I added
>
> export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)"
>
> to bark.sh, but this also failed to solve the problem. Roger
Maybe a difference in some software? I ran
eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay
/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav
Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025
Hz, Mono
and it worked.
eben@cerberus:~$ uname -r
6.1.0-30-amd64
eben@cerberus:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
12.9
eben@cerberus:~$ aplay --version
aplay: version 1.2.8 by Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
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