[pulseaudio-discuss] Fwd: pulseaudio daemon not responging

[Colin Guthrie]

Hi, Stefan,

If possible please try to reply in plain text rather than HTML and also
try not to top post. Thanks! My reply is below.


'Twas brillig, and Stefan Stefanov at 20/11/12 13:39 did gyre and gimble:
> 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


This above output shows some kind of problem already.

You should not have any start-pulseaudio-x11 process running. This
indicates that the pulseaudio daemon process has not exited (as it
should) and is preventing the script (start-pulseaudio-x11) from exiting.

Also there should be only one "pulseaudio --start" process visible
(again indicative of it not forking away properly).

So before we look into why the client can't connect to the daemon, let's
see why the daemon doesn't start!!

Try a fresh reboot, and just kill any running pulseaudio processes. Then
in a terminal (just as a regular user):

pulseaudio -vvvvv


And then paste the output here.


Cheers

Col

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