[pulseaudio-discuss] no sound from pulseaudio

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 01.11.07 12:36, Juergen Bausa (Juergen.Bausa at web.de) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to switch from esd to pulseaudio on my debian etch system. So I 
> stopped the esd (which worked fine before, using alsa as backend), installed 
> all the pulseaudio packages, added myself to the pulse, pulse-rt and pulse-access 
> groups and started the daemon. However,  I cant hear any sound:

Please make sure to run PA 0.9.7 and provide me with the output of
pulseaudio -vv when you try to acces it with "pacat" or suchlike.

> So, pulseaudio seems to run. These are the messages from syslog, when starting the system:
> ------------------------------------------
> Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: alsa-util.c: device doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
> Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: alsa-util.c: device doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
> Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: sound-file.c: Failed to open file /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav
> Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: x11wrap.c: XOpenDisplay() failed
> Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-x11-bell" (argument: "sample=x11-bell"): initialization failed.
> Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: x11wrap.c: XOpenDisplay() failed
> Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-x11-publish" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
> Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: module-gconf.c: Unable to read or parse data from client.
> Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-gconf" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
> Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: main.c: Failed to load sound file.
> Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: main.c: Module load failed.
> Nov  1 12:29:37 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: protocol-esound.c: kicked client with invalid authorization key.
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> The 'authorization' messages seems to come from kde, which tries to connect to esd, which is emulated by pulseaudio.
> 
> Any hints?

The ESD errors are authentication errors. Is PA running as differnt
user as your clients? If so you have to make sure to copy the same
~/.esd_auth to all users home directories that shall have access.

Lennart

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