[pulseaudio-discuss] pacmd list Daemon not responding.

[namittal at codeaurora.org]

On 2017-08-28 10:31, namittal at codeaurora.org wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
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I rebooted the system and then
I tried running pulseaudio using
pulseaudio --start
and then tried using command
pactl list
it worked!!
But
/ # pacat
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

pacat is not working any help?