[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse Audio crashes

[Colin Guthrie]

Scott Castaline wrote:
> Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> Scott Castaline wrote:
>>> What about libspeexdsp and libgdm? Fedora repos don't have prebuilt so I 
>>> have to go with source. 
>> They will be there but they may have some different names... like 
>> gdm-devel or whatever. Hunt around you'll find them.
> 
> Did & done
>>
>>> Do you know of anyoptions needed besides 
>>> PREFIX=/usr? Also I could only find gdbm, that should have the libgdbm 
>>> parts. Should I build and install the whole pkge, if not, what options 
>>> for a partial install?
>> I'd actually strongly advise you *against* using /usr as a prefix. This 
>> is the distro prefix where officially installed packages live. If you 
>> want to build your own stuff from source, I'd recomment using /usr/local 
>> or (and this is my personal preference) I'd use a random location e.g. 
>> /home/colin/pulse-trunk as my prefix. When I'm done I can just remove 
>> that folder and I've tided up everything. If you use /usr and you want 
>> to tidy up or revert to the distro version you'll have to go around and 
>> tidy things up manually which is both very difficult and time consuming.
> 
> Too late already had done. All dependencies installed and pulseaudio was 
> configured, compiled, and installed as instructed by Sean McNamara. 
> Pulse will not start. When I start from gnome term I get the following:
> 
> I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
> I: caps.c: Dropping root priviliges.
> I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
> E: module.c: Failed to open module "module-esound-protocol-unix": 
> libsocket-util.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> E: main.c: Module load failed.
> E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon
> 
> Any suggestions as to where I should be looking?

Hmmmmm. Did you use git master? And did you remove your system 
pulseaudio? In master libsocket-util.so is gone. I am wondering which 
version of pulse you are actually running now. Perhaps you're trying to 
load the old module-esound-protocol-unix module into the new server 
which will not work :s

This could be sadly what I was worried about when I advised about not 
using /usr..... and you may just have to go around tidying things up 
manually....

Col

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