[GH-ISSUE #1618] VLC: machine-id breaks PulseAudio #1082

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opened 2026-05-05 07:25:53 -06:00 by gitea-mirror · 2 comments

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Originally created by @curiosity-seeker on GitHub (Oct 25, 2017).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/1618

On Fedora 26 with VLC 3.0 I've made the observation that machine-id breaks PulseAudio:

pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Verbindung verweigert

After commenting that switch everything works okay.

Can someone confirm this?

Originally created by @curiosity-seeker on GitHub (Oct 25, 2017). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/1618 On Fedora 26 with VLC 3.0 I've made the observation that `machine-id` breaks PulseAudio: `pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Verbindung verweigert` After commenting that switch everything works okay. Can someone confirm this?

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2026-05-05 07:25:57 -06:00

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@netblue30 commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2017):

Fixed!

Pulse ends up using /etc/machine-id files on some setups. It used to do it all the time on Debian Jessie, now on Stretch it stopped doing it. And if you also have ALSA installed, you never know if the program picks up pulse or alsa. So, it is a full mess! The safe way to go is to remove machine-id from any program using sound.

@netblue30 commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2017): Fixed! Pulse ends up using /etc/machine-id files on some setups. It used to do it all the time on Debian Jessie, now on Stretch it stopped doing it. And if you also have ALSA installed, you never know if the program picks up pulse or alsa. So, it is a full mess! The safe way to go is to remove machine-id from any program using sound.

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2026-05-05 07:25:58 -06:00

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@curiosity-seeker commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2017):

The safe way to go is to remove machine-id from any program using sound.

Yes, indeed! I had also added it to the dragon profile as a test and sound was also broken here.

Thanks for the fix!

@curiosity-seeker commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2017): > The safe way to go is to remove machine-id from any program using sound. Yes, indeed! I had also added it to the dragon profile as a test and sound was also broken here. Thanks for the fix!

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