[pulseaudio-discuss] pacmd list Daemon not responding.

[namittal at codeaurora.org]

Hello,

I am getting this error “Daemon not responding”.

/ # pulseaudio --kill
/ # pulseaudio --start
W: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.This 
program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is 
specified).
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.scandir("/home/root/.config/pulse/client.conf.d") 
failed: No such file or directory
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Parsing 
configuration file '/home/root/.config/pulse/client.conf'
I: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Daemon 
startup successful.
/ # pacmd list
Daemon not responding.

Additional info.

/ # ps aux | grep -i pulse
2228 root       0:07 pulseaudio
2242 pulse      0:00 pulseaudio -D --system
2312 root       0:00 {grep} /bin/busybox /bin/grep -i pulse

/ # pulseaudio -vvvv
W: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.This 
program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is 
specified).
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Timer 
slack is set to 50 us.
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.setpriority() 
worked.
I: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Successfully 
gained nice level -11.
I: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.This 
is PulseAudio 6.0
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Compilation 
host: arm-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Compilation 
CFLAGS:  -O2 -fexpensive-optimizations -frename-registers 
-fomit-frame-pointer -ftree-vectorize   -Wno-error=maybe-uninitialized 
-finline-functions -finline-limit=64  -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe 
-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 
-fdiagnostics-color=auto
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Running 
on host: Linux aarch64 3.18.48 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 1 18:45:10 IST 
2017
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Found 
4 CPUs.
I: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Page 
size is 4096 bytes
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Compiled 
with Valgrind support: no
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Running 
in valgrind mode: no
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Running 
in VM: no
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Optimized 
build: yes
D: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.FASTPATH 
defined, only fast path asserts disabled.
I: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Machine 
ID is 9d4fcfcf2f16480eab2a24d883a56dd6.
I: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Using 
runtime directory 
/home/root/.config/pulse/9d4fcfcf2f16480eab2a24d883a56dd6-runtime.
I: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Using 
state directory /home/root/.config/pulse.
I: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Using 
modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-6.0/modules.
I: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Running 
in system mode: no
E: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Daemon 
already running.
E: 
[pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.pa_pid_file_create() 
failed.