[pulseaudio-discuss] pstream.c: Failed to import memory block.

[Jon Smirl]

On 11/20/07, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 20.11.07 16:32, Jon Smirl (jonsmirl at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> >
> > On 11/20/07, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 20.11.07 21:50, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I just have the standard Ubuntu package installed. I would suppose
> > > > > that whoever made it knew what they were doing.
> > > >
> > > > I wouldn't want to speculate about this.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I just spoke to the Ubuntu guys. They have the file
> > > /etc/default/pulseaudio which can be used to enable system wide
> > > mode. Most likely you modified that file?
> >
> > Looking at it I must have modified it a while ago and forgotten. If
> > you don't turn
> > PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1 on, you can't start pulse using
> > /etc/init.d/pulseaudio and then pulse doesn't start on boot. Editing
> > that file is the standard way of turning on services in Ubuntu.
> >
> > Am I supposed to start it with my Gnome session instead?
>
> Yes, PA is normally started as a drop-in replacement for esd. I.e. it
> provides a compatibility script called "esd" that actually starts
> PA. All you have to do is to toggle the "Start ESD" checkbox in g-s-p.

This wasn't obvious. I was looking to enable Pulse.

Now for the really good news. Running it as a session fixed my volume
problem. Does this point to where the bug may be in system mode?

>
> > What to do is not exactly obvious when installing the package.
>
> But afaik the file in /etc/default/ tells you that using the
> system-wide stuff is not recommended and not what most people would
> want to use.

But it failed to mention the recommended alternative.


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Jon Smirl
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