[pulseaudio-discuss] main.c: daemon startup failed.

[Ben Finney]

Howdy all,

When attempting to start PulseAudio's server, I get the following
uninformative error message:

    $ sudo /usr/bin/pulseaudio
    E: main.c: daemon startup failed.

What can I do to diagnose this further?


Other information that may be relevant:

    $ uname -a
    Linux lily 2.6.24-1-powerpc #1 Mon Feb 11 12:53:42 CET 2008 ppc GNU/Linux

    $ /usr/bin/pulseaudio --version
    pulseaudio 0.9.9

    $ aptitude show pulseaudio | grep '^\(Version\|Maintainer\):'
    Version: 0.9.9-1
    Maintainer: CJ van den Berg <cj at vdbonline.com>

    $ cat /etc/pulse/daemon.conf | grep -v '^$' | grep -v '^[#;]'
    daemonize = yes
    system-instance = yes
    high-priority = no

An strace of the process looks like (truncated):

    $ sudo strace /usr/bin/pulseaudio
    [...]
    read(3, "# /etc/pulse/daemon.conf\n# Syste"..., 4096) = 1682
    read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
    close(3)                                = 0
    munmap(0x4802c000, 4096)                = 0
    open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
    read(3, "\253\332\242\312", 4)          = 4
    close(3)                                = 0
    pipe([3, 4])                            = 0
    clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x4802a5c8) = 25895
    close(4)                                = 0
    read(3, "\0\0\0\1", 4)                  = 4
    ioctl(2, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
    write(2, "E: main.c: \33[1;31mdaemon startup"..., 45E: main.c: daemon startup failed.
    ) = 45
    close(3)                                = 0
    exit_group(1)                           = ?
    Process 25894 detached

The whole strace output can be seen at <URL:http://pastebin.ca/983265>
until 2008-04-27.

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Ben Finney