[pulseaudio-discuss] Service fails on systemctl start. Status always "activating"

[Karl Stahl]

Apparently the "xcb_connection_has_error()" message is caused by my having SSHed to the device.  If I run the same command on the device directly, I don't get that message.  My environment already had that variable set as you suggested:

$ echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
/run/user/1000

In any case, I still get the "pa_context_connect() failed" message.

Is pulseaudio running?  Yes:
$ ps -ef | grep pulse
pi        1050   809  0 11:14 ?        00:00:54 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no

$ PULSE_LOG=99 pactl info
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
Trying to connect to /run/user/1000/pulse/native...
connect(): Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
Trying to connect to /var/run/pulse/native...
connect(): No such file or directory (2)
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

$ netstat -lx | grep pulse
unix  3      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     12344    /run/user/1000/pulse/native

Any other thoughts?  Does it matter that I have "--daemonize=no" in my service file?  By the way, if I do not use a systemd service at all, I've been able to get Pulseaudio to run successfully by manually typing "pulseaudio --start" at the command line.  That doesn't really help me though, because I need Pulseaudio to be available on bootup, without manual intervention.


> On May 22, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 11:21 -0700, Karl Stahl wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply!  I'm running Raspbian and have pulseaudio
>> version 5.0.
>> I tried changing it to type=simple, and that fixed the notify issue,
>> but it's still not working.  This is what I get:
>> 
>> $ paplay test.wav
>> connect localhost port 6020: Connection refused
>> xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
> 
> These are unfamiliar errors to me... Is your X11 setup unusual? The
> first error could be about libpulse trying to connect to X11 using port
> 6020, which would be strange, because normally X11 uses unix sockets.
> 
>> Connection failure: Connection refused
>> pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
> 
> Is pulseaudio running? If it is, paplay doesn't find the socket. That
> might be because systemd sets the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable
> for the services it starts, and that affects the socket location, but
> your login environment might not have that variable set. Try setting
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 in your login session setup.
> 
> If that doesn't help, run "PULSE_LOG=99 pactl info". That will show
> what socket pactl tries to use. You can compare that to the output of
> "netstat -lx | grep pulse", that will show what socket the server uses.
> 
> -- 
> Tanu
> 
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