[Buildroot] pulseaudio isn't work on buildroot-2017.02.5

[Jörg Krause]

Hi Baruch,

On Fri, 2018-03-02 at 00:07 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Jörg,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 03:12:19PM +0100, Jörg Krause wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 22:48 -0700, Jonas wrote:
> > > thank you for your reply.
> > > 
> > > I try to set "BR2_PACKAGE_PULSEAUDIO_DAEMON".
> > > 
> > > # ps
> > > ...
> > >   223 root     -sh
> > >   224 root     /sbin/getty -L tty1 0 vt100
> > >   256 pulse    pulseaudio --system --daemonize
> > >   260 root     ps
> > > 
> > > it seen works in system mode, but I want to use "pactl" command.
> > > I need set source and sink.
> > > 
> > > I get this error message:
> > > # pactl stat
> > > Connection failure: Access denied
> > > 
> > > #pactl list sources short
> > > Connection failure: Access denied
> > > 
> > > #pactl list sink short
> > > Connection failure: Access denied
> > > 
> > > Could you help me again.
> > > Thank you very much.
> > 
> > In case someone has the same issue. I got it working adding the root
> > user to the pulse-access group:
> > 
> > # grep pulse-access /etc/group
> > pulse-access:x:1006:pulse,root
> 
> Do you have any idea how this solves the permission issue?

Not really. To be honest, I didn't really try to find a better
solution.

Jörg