[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #368: PulseAudio Fails To Start, Intermittently

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#368: PulseAudio Fails To Start, Intermittently
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 Reporter:  midair5  |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:         
Component:  daemon   |    Severity:  normal 
 Keywords:           |  
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 About every third or fourth time on boot up, pulse audio does not start.
 I get the following error messages in the /var/log/messages file:

 Sep 22 18:11:41 racer5 pulseaudio[2812]: pid.c: Stale PID file,
 overwriting.
 Sep 22 18:11:41 racer5 pulseaudio[2812]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE,
 (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
 Sep 22 18:11:41 racer5 pulseaudio[2812]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO,
 (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted

 I can usually get it started by killing or restarting the daemon, but I
 shouldn't have to do that.

 Below is the /etc/daemon.conf file.  You can see the changes I made to it,
 to no avail.

 I also made sure that my login account is a member of the pulse-access,
 pulse-rt and pulse groups.

 PulseAudio version is 0.9.10 - This is the lastest version my distro
 includes (Fedora 9)

 Kernel version 2.6.26.3-29.fc9
 It also didn't work reliably with kernel version 2.6.25.14-108

 # $Id: daemon.conf.in 2175 2008-03-27 23:39:10Z lennart $
 #
 # This file is part of PulseAudio.
 #
 # PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
 by
 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 # (at your option) any later version.
 #
 # PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
 # General Public License for more details.
 #
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 # along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
 # USA.

 ## Configuration file for the PulseAudio daemon. See pulse-daemon.conf(5)
 for
 ## more information. Default values a commented out.  Use either ; or #
 for
 ## commenting.

 daemonize = yes
 ; fail = yes
 ; disallow-module-loading = no
 ; use-pid-file = yes
 ; system-instance = no
 ; disable-shm = no

  high-priority = no
  nice-level = -11

  realtime-scheduling = no
  realtime-priority = 5

 ; exit-idle-time = -1
 ; module-idle-time = 20
 ; scache-idle-time = 20

 ; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)

 ; default-script-file =

 ; log-target = auto
 ; log-level = notice

 ; resample-method = speex-float-3
 ; disable-remixing = no

 ; no-cpu-limit = no

 ; rlimit-as = -1
 ; rlimit-core = -1
 ; rlimit-data = -1
 ; rlimit-fsize = -1
 ; rlimit-nofile = 256
 ; rlimit-stack = -1
 ; rlimit-nproc = -1
 ; rlimit-memlock = -1
 ; rlimit-nice = 31
 ; rlimit-rtprio = 9

 ; default-sample-format = s16le
 ; default-sample-rate = 44100
 ; default-sample-channels = 2

 ; default-fragments = 4
 ; default-fragment-size-msec = 25

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