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Error on startup: /usr/bin/bluealsa: Couldn't acquire D-Bus name: org.bluealsa

See original GitHub issue

I had this working fine until the last couple of days. Now I get the following error when the container starts:

Setting volume to 100%
Restarting bluetooth service
Bluetooth agent registered
/usr/bin/bluealsa: Couldn't acquire D-Bus name: org.bluealsa
Device is discoverable as "balenaSound"
/usr/bin/bluealsa-aplay: Couldn't get BlueALSA PCM list: The name org.bluealsa was not provided by any .service files

There was a Balena image rebuild, but no relevant code changes as far as I’m aware. Deploying an older release avoids the error.

Any ideas?

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  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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txgruppicommented, Aug 1, 2019

Thanks @pwt, it is working fine now.

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pwtcommented, Aug 1, 2019

As I suspected, the problem is due to the switch to Buster from Stretch. If you use Stretch, everything works as before. The first line in Dockerfile.template needs to be changed as follows:

-FROM balenalib/%%BALENA_MACHINE_NAME%%:buster
+FROM balenalib/%%BALENA_MACHINE_NAME%%:stretch

Probably best to revert back to Stretch while the Buster bugs/changes are worked out. I’m hitting Buster issues in a number of different areas.

I’ll create a PR.

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