[pulseaudio-discuss] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 16:28 +0530, namittal at codeaurora.org wrote:
> I am running pulseaudio on a embedded system without any display 
> attached.
> / # pulseaudio -nC
> W: [pulseaudio] main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root 
> (unless --system is specified).
> W: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: 
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Using X11 for dbus-daemon 
> autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your 
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead
> W: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: 
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Using X11 for dbus-daemon 
> autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your 
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead
> 
> Any idea from where should i start debugging?

You don't say what problem you're trying to solve. Those messages are
just warnings, they don't prevent pulseaudio from working.

All of the warnings should go away if you run pulseaudio with the --
system option.

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