[pulseaudio-discuss] Fwd: pulseaudio daemon not responging

[Stefan Stefanov]

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From: Stefan Stefanov <selectany at gmail.com>
Date: 2012/11/20
Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio daemon not responging
To: Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi>


Thanks for reply!

Here is the output from the command:

bash-4.2$ ps aux | grep -i pulse
stefan    1262  0.0  0.2   3344  1100 tty1     S    18:48   0:00 /bin/sh
/usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
stefan    1265  0.7  0.3  18292  1896 tty1     S    18:48   0:00
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
stefan    1282  0.0  0.1  18292   540 ?        Ss   18:48   0:00
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
stefan    1283  5.6  0.7  85916  3988 ?        Sl   18:48   0:01
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
stefan    1317  0.0  0.1   2644   552 pts/0    S+   18:48   0:00 grep -i
pulse
bash-4.2$ PULSE_LOG=99 pactl info
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size
is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
Trying to connect to /tmp/pulse-povt34eh33pc/native...
connect(): No such file or directory (2)
Trying to connect to /home/stefan/.pulse/native...
connect(): No such file or directory (2)
Trying to connect to /var/run/pulse/native...
connect(): No such file or directory (2)
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
bash-4.2$


PP: I run this command from within MATE environment. As you can see
pulseaudio is started from "start-pulseaudio-x11".

2012/11/20 Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi>

> 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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