Audio from sys-audio only works for already-running qubes, not newly started ones

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Hi!

I’ve been struggling with audio in sys-audio for a while and tried pretty much everything from various threads, but I can’t get it working reliably. There are tons of sys-audio related discussions, so apologies for starting a new one, I couldn’t find one that exactly matches my symptoms.

The problem is that at system startup, no qube gets audio from sys-audio. In sys-audio’s Pulsaudio system tray the Playback and Recording menu items show no streams at all.

If I manually stop and restart the audio daemon in sys-audio, audio start working for all qubes that were already running at that moment. However, any qube I start afterward gets no audio. Its stream doesn’t appear, and there’s no sound output.

I’ve also applied the patch to /usr/lib/python3/site-packages/qubesadmin/tools/qvm_start_daemon.py that’s mentioned in some threads, but it didn’t change anything.

Anyone has any idea how to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

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I’m no expert but it feels like something is wrong with qubes policy

More specifically, these rules:

admin.Events          +domain-spawn                              sys-audio     @tag:audiovm-sys-audio    allow target=dom0
admin.Events          +domain-start	                         sys-audio     @tag:audiovm-sys-audio    allow target=dom0

Maybe there’s a typo in your definition or something overrides them later on?

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Thanks a lot. It worked.