My Xpra 0.17.0 server logs:
2016-04-20 17:15:02,175 which(pactl) error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/sound/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_pactl_util.py", line 23, in which returncode, out, _ = safe_exec(cmd, log_errors=False) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/scripts/exec_util.py", line 13, in safe_exec process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1335, in _execute_child raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
From this output it is not clear which file is missing. Some investigation reveals that which
itself is not installed.
It would be nice if Xpra would not rely on which
or fail more gracefully to allow easier debugging.
r12449 improves the error handling, the message should now look like this:
Error: failed to run 'which pactl' [Errno 2] No such file or directory
As for being able to detect if "pactl" is installed without trying to execute it, feel free to suggest a better option I can implement.
Not heard back, closing.
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1182