[pulseaudio-discuss] pacmd list Daemon not responding.

[namittal at codeaurora.org]

On 2017-08-26 18:52, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-08-21 at 12:41 +0530, namittal at codeaurora.org wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> pacmd doesn't work when pulseaudio is running in the system mode. Use
> pactl instead. The difference between the two programs is that pactl
> uses the normal method of speaking to the server and pactl uses a weird
> method. pactl supports almost everything that pacmd does, and pactl is
> in general recommended over pacmd.
> 
>> 
>> 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
> 
> So you've managed to start pulseaudio as a per-user instance for root,
> and another instance is running in the system mode. There should be
> only one instance running. Which mode do you want to use? If you don't
> know, probably the system mode is the right choice.

I have restarted system and run only one pulseaudio in system mode and 
pactl instead of pacmd.

/ # pactl info
Connection failure: Access denied

/ # ps aux | grep -i pulse
  2117 pulse      3:32 pulseaudio -D --system
  2129 root       0:00 {grep} /bin/busybox /bin/grep -i pulse

any idea why this happening ?