[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio error message

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 08/07/2009 06:49 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Patrick Shirkey at 07/08/09 07:41 did gyre and gimble:
>> yum install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i586
>
> First off do you have a 32 bit system or is this a 32 bit library on a 
> predominantly 64 bit system?
>


I have Fedora 11 64 bit with a dev version of pulse. I have both the 32 
and 64 bit version of the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio library but skype and 
flash are not able to find the 64 bit version. Hard linking it from 
/usr/lib64 to /usr/lib doesn't do anything.


I enabled mails to my address from the mailing list now so no need to cc.


Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd





>> - I get the same error messages with skype and while playing youtube 
>> videos in firefox:
>>
>> socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
>> ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: 
>> Connection refused
>>
>> - I have added my user as a member of the pulse group.
>
> The groups should be irrelevant unless you are running in System Wide 
> mode (which I suspect you are not - it's certainly not the recommended 
> or default way on Fedora).
>
> This happens when the libpulse client cannot connect to the server you 
> are running. Simple tests are using:
>
> paplay /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
> aplay /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
>
> This tests a native client and an alsa client using the alsa libraries.
>
> What I suspect is happening here is that you are running a 64 bit 
> system and that the above two commands will work fine.
>
> However, the 32 bit libpulse that is installed on your system is 
> looking for a different location to communicate with pulseaudio server 
> (this *has* changed between 0.9.15 and 0.9.16).
>
> It should just be a matter of building a 32 bit version of libpulse to 
> go with your git master version.
>
> If I'm wrong with the assumptions please let us know :)




>
>> Please cc me on the response.
>
> Gmane, Gmane, Gmane :p
>
>