[pulseaudio-discuss] Issue with access

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Fred Frigerio at 18/07/11 12:38 did gyre and gimble:
> 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).

That's cool. fuser output being empty is semi-expected (when it's not
empty, it can cause problems.


OK, so all this looks to be good so far. PA is running, but what is
interesting is that the PULSE_SERVER string is not present in your xprop
output....

Can you try this:

PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat


As a guess, I suspect you are running padevchooser (little tray icon
thing) and it's messing up your connection. It's been deprecated for
years and we do not recommend it's usage, so you can always try killing
it and rebooting.

(also feel free to pop on IRC if this is easier than emails)

Col

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