[pulseaudio-discuss] Issue with access

[Fred Frigerio]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Fred Frigerio at 19/07/11 02:03 did gyre and gimble:
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>> '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
>>>
>>
>> See attached. The interesting bit is that it is looking for a native
>> file|pipe? that just isn't there. There is a pid file in that
>> directory but that's it.
>
> I think you forgot the attachment?
>
>
> But the fact that it's trying to access the native socket and that
> doesn't exist is telling....
>
> It also explains why PA is running but you were allowed to start another PA.
>
> So I'd suggest that *something* is going on with your filesystem that is
> "interesting". I suspect that PA is starting, writing it's various
> sockets and metadata files, and then having them removed from it by some
> other process...
>
> Can you do "ls -l ~/.pulse"?
>
>
> Can you think of anything that would cause this. I suspect that it's
> probably related to $TMPDIR getting cleaned out over vigorously.
>
>

I can't think of what might be going on. The only item with /tmp that
I can think of is that I switched it from an old hard drive to a new
one in a mirror configuration. Could it be some 'bad' choice during
the kernel config?

Attached is the ouput of ls.

Thank you,

Fred F.
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