[pulseaudio-discuss] paplay : connection refused

[sean darcy]

On 01/27/2015 01:41 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> On Fedora 20, I'm trying to play a bunch of opus files with opusdec,
> which outputs to /dev/dsp. I tried padsp, but that doesn't work:
>
> padsp opusdec test.opus
> Decoding to 48000 Hz (2 channels)
> Cannot open /dev/dsp: Connection refused
>
> So to troubleshoot I tried:
>
> paplay test.wav
> Connection failure: Connection refused
> pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
>
>   pulseaudio is running:
>
>   pacmd ls
>   Memory blocks currently allocated: 1, size: 63.9 KiB.
>   Memory blocks allocated during the whole lifetime: 40, size: 2.1 MiB.
>   Memory blocks imported from other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
>   Memory blocks exported to other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
>   Total sample cache size: 0 B.
>   Default sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
>   Default channel map: front-left,front-right
>   Default sink name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
>   Default source name: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
>   Memory blocks of type POOL: 1 allocated/1 accumulated.
>   Memory blocks of type POOL_EXTERNAL: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
>   Memory blocks of type APPENDED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
>   Memory blocks of type USER: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
>   Memory blocks of type FIXED: 0 allocated/39 accumulated.
>   Memory blocks of type IMPORTED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
>   24 module(s) loaded.
>   .............
>
> From  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/PulseAudio I've added:
>
> load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1
>
> to /etc/pulse/default.pa
>
> I've checked all the boxes in the paprefs dialog.
>
> Still no joy.
>
> Even pactl fails:
>
> pactl stat
> Connection failure: Connection refused
> pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
>
> systemlog doesn't show anything when I execute paplay. There are some
> log messages, but seem unrelated:
>
> Jan 27 11:23:27 sixcore.server pulseaudio[3124]: GetManagedObjects()
> failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message,
> 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.66" (uid=505 pid=3124
> comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start ")
> interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager"
> member="GetManagedObjects" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0"
> destination="org.bluez" (uid=0 pid=1478
> comm="/usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd ")
> Jan 27 11:23:28 sixcore.server pulseaudio[2898]: GetManagedObjects()
> failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message,
> 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.67" (uid=504 pid=2898
> comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start ")
> interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager"
> member="GetManagedObjects" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0"
> destination="org.bluez" (uid=0 pid=1478
> comm="/usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd ")
> Jan 27 11:50:36 sixcore.server pulseaudio[5835]: Daemon already running.
> Jan 27 11:50:37 sixcore.server pulseaudio[2712]: module-x11-xsmp may not
> be loaded twice.
> Jan 27 11:50:37 sixcore.server pulseaudio[2712]: Failed to load module
> "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: "display=:0.0
> session_manager=local/unix:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/5613,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5613"):
> initialization failed.
>
> selinux is permissive.
>
> rpm -qa | grep ^pulse | sort
> pulseaudio-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
> pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
> pulseaudio-libs-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
> pulseaudio-libs-devel-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
> pulseaudio-libs-glib2-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
> pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
> pulseaudio-module-gconf-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
> pulseaudio-module-x11-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
> pulseaudio-utils-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> sean
>

Is this a dbus problem?

pulseaudio -vvvvvvvv
W: [pulseaudio] main: This program is not intended to be run as root 
(unless --system is specified).
D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: setpriority() worked.
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 5.0-rebootstrapped
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -O2 -g -pipe -Wall 
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong 
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches 
-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -W 
-Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings 
-Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op 
-Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs 
-Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self 
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes 
-Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow 
-Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings 
-Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 
3.17.8-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 8 23:26:57 UTC 2015
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 8 CPUs.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is ef65454e1a334e1e93f8ff6b0000000f.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 1.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/0/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /root/.config/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory 
/usr/lib64/pulse-5.0/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

AND:

pavucontrol

** (pavucontrol:5340): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility 
bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-H8m4wA3GCA: Connection refused

No clue how to fix anything related to dbus .

sean