<div dir="ltr"><div>I installed pulseaudio and what I *think/assume* were it's dependencies, (from slackbuild scripts)<br><br>avahi-0.6.31-x86_64-1_SBo<br>json-c-0.11-x86_64-1_SB<br>
libasyncns-0.8-x86_64-1_SBo<br>lirc-0.9.0_3.10.17-x86_64-3_SBo<br>jack-audio-connection-kit-0.124.1-x86_64-1_SBo<br>pavucontrol-2.0-x86_64-1_SBo<br>gtkmm3-3.8.1-x86_64-1_SBo<br>alsa-plugins-1.0.26-x86_64-1_SBo<br>pulseaudio-5.0-x86_64-1_SBo<br>
</div><div> (listed in order they were installed)<br><br></div><div>(some were listed as optional dependencies, one of which was orc which previously installed on Jun 17 )<br></div><div>=================================================<br>
</div><div>So....<br></div>I got the first set of errors when trying to start it:<br><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><br>/etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio start<br>E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/var/lib/pulse/.config/pulse): No such file or directory<br>
Starting pulseaudio...<br>W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/var/lib/pulse/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory<br>W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/var/lib/pulse/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory<br>
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/var/lib/pulse/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory<br>W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/var/lib/pulse/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory<br>
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/var/lib/pulse/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory<br>W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/var/lib/pulse/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory<br>
No protocol specified<br>E: [pulseaudio] client-conf-x11.c: xcb_connection_has_error() returned true<br>E: [autospawn] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/var/lib/pulse/.config/pulse): No such file or directory<br>
W: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock.<br>E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to acquire autospawn lock<br><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br>And this is what I got after the stop command:<br> <br></div>
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<br><div dir="ltr">/etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio stop <br>E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/var/lib/pulse/.config/pulse): No such file or directory<br>
pulseaudio is not running.<span><font color="#888888"><br><br><br clear="all"></font></span></div></blockquote></div><div><br>I [took it upon myself to] add root to the pulse group and so now I just get <br><br> /etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio start<br>
Starting pulseaudio...<div class="im"><br>No protocol specified<br>E: [pulseaudio] client-conf-x11.c: xcb_connection_has_error() returned true<br><br></div></div>And when I stop it:<br><br>/etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio stop <br>
Stopping pulseaudio...Done<div class=""><div id=":2xc" class="" tabindex="0"><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>In God we trust.<br><><
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