[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio error message

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 08/07/2009 08:37 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Patrick Shirkey at 07/08/09 10:55 did gyre and gimble:
>> 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.
>
> OK, so my guess was correct :)
>
> Problem is this:
>
> On 64 bit apps:
>
> Alsa loads the pulse plugin -> Pulse Plugin uses libpulse (from your 
> git build) and successfully finds and connects to the pulseaudio daemon.
>
> On 32 bit apps:
>
> Alsa loads the pulse plugin -> Pulse Plugin uses libpulse (from your 
> *system* version -e.g. mismatched from your server) and cannot find or 
> connect to the pulseaudio daemon.
>
>
> You need to make sure your 32bit libpulse matches the 64bit version.
>


I was having this same issue when running the default install from 
Fedora 0.9.15 before I upgraded to 0.9.16.

Can you recommend which steps I should take to ensure that the 32 bit 
lib and 64 bit lib will work together?

It seems that even the Fedora packagers are having trouble with this step.



Cheers.


> :)
>
> Col
>
>