[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio daemon not responging
Tanu Kaskinen
tanuk at iki.fi
Tue Nov 20 03:04:26 PST 2012
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 15:41 +0200, Stefan Stefanov wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm CRUX linux user. Til now my system works with alsa only, I decided to
> try pulseaudio.
>
> I spend several days trying to make pulseaudio works, but without any
> success.
> Pulseaudio daemon starts without errors, but it doesn't respond at connect.
> If I run "pacmd list" (or some other pulseaudio related cli tool), all I
> get is "Daemon not responding".
>
> The problem is that there is no error messages in log files about
> pulseaudio and it seems that it is all right but it is just not responding.
>
> Log only contains info messages about pulseaudio start process.
>
> I think that the real problem could be misconfigured permissions.
>
> Additional info about my system:
> - I'm using ConsoleKit with udev_acl enabled
> - No PAM at all
>
> I took a look in the source of pacmd and it seem that after 4 attempts to
> connect to daemon, the it give ups because daemon not responding and pacmd
> just quit.
How do you start pulseaudio?
Also, pacmd uses a different mechanism for connecting to pulseaudio than
all other programs, so I think it would be more useful to get the error
messages from a "normal" program, e.g. pactl. You could paste the output
of this command:
PULSE_LOG=99 pactl info
--
Tanu
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