Re: Sound / voice issues

On 9/20/25 11:12 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Running an up-to-date Debian Unstable with the new
> pipewire-system-services package installed, speech-dispatcher havinb
> been adapted to this so that only one system-wide instance is running.
> 
> This worked all fine before the update
 >

What update?


> , namely both Orca and the two
> instances of brltty (one to follow the virtual consoles and one to
> follow graphical terminals) were all connecting to the speech-dispatcher
> server.
> 
> I am now encountering two issues that I believe are independent. I am
> happy to report bug if/where appropriate but would like to ask for help
> in diagnosing and solving the problem before doing so.
> 
> Issue 1: users can't play sound.
> 
> My understanding of the problem: Pipewire's socket,
> /run/pipewire/pipewire-0, belongs to root.nogroup and is neither
> readable nor writable by others. If I run the following command:
> 
> chmod o+rw /run/pipewire/pipewire-0
> 
> users become able to play sound again, but this has of course to be
> repeated after each boot.
> 

You could use rc.local for not having to do this at boot manually!

Maybe the debian-user list might help as well!

-- 
John Doe