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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 13.04.08 10:28, Tanu Kaskinen (tanuk at iki.fi) 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".

PA doesn't have seperate verbosity levels for stderr and syslog. If
you don't get the message on stderr, you won't get it on syslog
either.

-vv is the way.

Lennart

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