[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio error message

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 08/07/2009 06:58 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Forgot to CC you, so here's a copy in private of the mail I sent to the
> PulseAudio mailing list:
>
> pe, 2009-08-07 kello 16:41 +1000, Patrick Shirkey kirjoitti:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have repeatedly had the following error message after installing the
>> following package:
>>
>> yum install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i586
>>      
>
> Doesn't Fedora come with pulseaudio preinstalled, along with the alsa
> plugin?
>
>    

Yes it has v-0.9.15 but I am running a comprehensive set of test to find 
out just how stable the pulse + jack integration is and while I have 
been looking into things over the past two days I have ended up with the 
latest pulse dev from git in order to get it to be relatively stable 
with jack on my system.

I am sending a complete report to the LAU list.


>> - 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
>>      
>
> "Connection refused" almost certainly means that pulseaudio wasn't
> running at the time connecting was tried. But the default install should
> autospawn the server on demand.
>
> Since you don't seem to have a default configuration, it would be useful
> to tell what changes you have made.
>
>    

I have been running pulse with module-jack-sink./source and 
module-alsa-sink/source.  In both cases I get teh same errors from skype 
and flash. Without the 32 bit version of the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio lib 
I get these messages:


======================================

$ skype
ALSA lib control.c:874:(snd_ctl_open_conf) Cannot open shared library 
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library 
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library 
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib control.c:874:(snd_ctl_open_conf) Cannot open shared library 
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library 
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library 
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
ALSA lib control.c:874:(snd_ctl_open_conf) Cannot open shared library 
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library 
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so

======================================


With  the lib installed I get:


============
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 pulse group is the group that the system mode runs under. Adding
> yourself to the group does nothing. If and only if you use the system
> mode, then adding yourself to the pulse-access group is useful.
>
>    

Added my user to pulse-access and logout/login but flash is still 
playing directly through alsa.

>
>> Almost everything I have found online says to disable pulseaudio which
>> is not at all what I want to do.
>>      
>
> I don't use either Skype or Flash myself, but I believe the situation is
> such that Flash 10 should work fine (I think Youtube might work with
> free alternatives too: gnash and/or swfdec), whereas Skype doesn't work
> well with PulseAudio.
>
>    


To be clear I can use both skype and flash and no doubt any other app 
that has the same method of interacting with the alsa layer directly 
through alsa as long as no other app is playing through pulse audio or 
jack is not running.

My goal is to be able to have flash, skype, realplayer, etc... running 
over pulseaudio and pulseaudio running over jack.

I'm close but not there yet.




Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd






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