[pulseaudio-discuss] main.c: daemon startup failed.

[Colin Guthrie]

Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:43:55PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Howdy all,
>>
>> When attempting to start PulseAudio's server, I get the following
>> uninformative error message:
>>
>>     $ sudo /usr/bin/pulseaudio
>>     E: main.c: daemon startup failed.
>>
>> What can I do to diagnose this further?
> 
> I believe /var/log/syslog has more error messages. If they
> aren't informative enough, you can try increased verbosity
> by starting with the parameter "-vv".

Also don't start pulse as root unless you are running a --system daemon
(which is generally not recommended) - it's better to run a pulseaudio
daemon for each user and let consolekit take care of user switching etc.

HTH

Col