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

[Ben Finney]

Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> writes:

> I believe /var/log/syslog has more error messages.

You're right, thank you.

Here are the messages that get logged when I try starting the server:

    Apr 13 18:27:52 lily pulseaudio[26288]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
    Apr 13 18:27:52 lily pulseaudio[26288]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
    Apr 13 18:27:53 lily pulseaudio[26288]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: No such device
    Apr 13 18:27:53 lily pulseaudio[26288]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_106b_3e_alsa_capture_0"): initialization failed.
    Apr 13 18:27:53 lily pulseaudio[26287]: main.c: read() failed: No such file or directory
    Apr 13 18:27:53 lily pulseaudio[26287]: main.c: daemon startup failed.


I'm not sure why the 'setrlimit()' calls fail.

The ALSA server hasn't been configured to use 'hw:0'. I've configured
'/etc/asound.conf' as per the PulseAudio wiki page,
<URL:http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup>:

    $ cat /etc/asound.conf
    pcm.pulse {
        type pulse
    }
    pcm.!default {
        type pulse
    }

    ctl.pulse {
        type pulse
    }
    ctl.!default {
        type pulse
    }

I can only assume the 'Failed to load  module "module-alsa-source"' is
because of the corresponding error from 'alsa-util.c'.

What can I do next to diagnose this further?

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Ben Finney