I've installed pulseaudio-4.0 recently and after that I noticed that the following message shows up on my tty upon every boot during dbus service launch: Unknown username "pulse" in message bus configuration file Pulseaudio and the rest of the system works fine. It seems that this message is caused by /etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf file which contains: <busconfig> <!-- System-wide PulseAudio runs as 'pulse' user. This fragment is not necessary for user PulseAudio instances. --> <policy user="pulse"> <allow own="org.pulseaudio.Server"/> </policy> </busconfig> This file is unnecessary when system-wide USE is disabled (my case) and causes warning as there is no pulse user in such setup. That's why it shouldn't be installed. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 356346 [details] emerge --info pulseaudio
Part of rc.log with the warning: rc default logging started at Sun Aug 18 05:11:59 2013 * Starting acpid ... [ ok ] * Starting D-BUS system messagebus ... Unknown username "pulse" in message bus configuration file [ ok ] * Starting ConsoleKit daemon ... [ ok ] * Setting up kdm ... [ ok ]
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 447694 ***