[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio daemon not responging

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 15:41 +0200, Stefan Stefanov wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm CRUX linux user. Til now my system works with alsa only, I decided to
> try pulseaudio.
> 
> I spend several days trying to make pulseaudio works, but without any
> success.
> Pulseaudio daemon starts without errors, but it doesn't respond at connect.
> If I run "pacmd list" (or some other pulseaudio related cli tool), all I
> get is "Daemon not responding".
> 
> The problem is that there is no error messages in log files about
> pulseaudio and it seems that it is all right but it is just not responding.
> 
> Log only contains info messages about pulseaudio start process.
> 
> I think that the real problem could be misconfigured permissions.
> 
> Additional info about my system:
>  - I'm using ConsoleKit with udev_acl enabled
>  - No PAM at all
> 
> I took a look in the source of pacmd and it seem that after 4 attempts to
> connect to daemon, the it give ups because daemon not responding and pacmd
> just quit.

How do you start pulseaudio?

Also, pacmd uses a different mechanism for connecting to pulseaudio than
all other programs, so I think it would be more useful to get the error
messages from a "normal" program, e.g. pactl. You could paste the output
of this command:

PULSE_LOG=99 pactl info

-- 
Tanu