[pulseaudio-discuss] Issue with access

[Fred Frigerio]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Fred Frigerio at 17/07/11 22:46 did gyre and gimble:
>> I have a strange problem. I have been running pa for a long time under
>> gentoo x86. However from a couple of days back it is not working
>> anymore (it was after a round of updates but I can't pinpoint what
>> might have done it)
>>
>> I can start pulseaudio -v without a problem. However I cannot connect
>> to it afterwards and I get the following error in syslog.
>>
>> pulseaudio[18226]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
>>
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> This is what I get when starting pulseaudio -v
>
>> I: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy
>
> This implies some other application already has PA open.
>
> Some debug is needed I think.
>
> Can you attach (as .txt files) the output from:
>
> ck-list-sessions
> getfacl /dev/snd/*
> sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/pcm*
> ps aux | grep pulse
> xprop -root | grep PULSE
>

Here it goes. The output from the fuser command is empty (I did run it
as root). Also I am running gnome (2.32).

Thank you Colin and Claudio
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Session1:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = 'Fred Frigerio'
	seat = 'Seat1'
	session-type = ''
	active = TRUE
	x11-display = ':0'
	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
	display-device = ''
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-07-17T18:17:05.005817Z'
	login-session-id = ''
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# file: dev/snd/by-id
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

# file: dev/snd/by-path
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

# file: dev/snd/controlC0
# owner: root
# group: audio
user::rw-
user:ffrigerio:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---

# file: dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
# owner: root
# group: audio
user::rw-
user:ffrigerio:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---

# file: dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
# owner: root
# group: audio
user::rw-
user:ffrigerio:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---

# file: dev/snd/seq
# owner: root
# group: audio
user::rw-
user:ffrigerio:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---

# file: dev/snd/timer
# owner: root
# group: audio
user::rw-
user:ffrigerio:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---
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1000     19362  0.0  0.0 103144  4748 pts/1    S<l+ Jul17   0:00 pulseaudio -v
1000     19365  0.0  0.0  21676  3620 pts/1    Sl+  Jul17   0:00 /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
1000     22427  0.0  0.0   3884   724 pts/3    S+   07:31   0:00 grep --colour=auto pulse
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PULSE_COOKIE(STRING) = "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"
PULSE_SESSION_ID(STRING) = "b3211f26c53652cb6a33912f0000004d-1310926624.978398-356352062"
PULSE_ID(STRING) = "1000 at b3211f26c53652cb6a33912f0000004d/19362"