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THCMyst

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Registered: 2010-08-20

Posts: 11

Pulse Audio refuses to start

Not exactly sure what's going on. Checked a few sites. can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Last time I installed Arch all of my sound worked perfectly, this time it didn't, so I tried doing some tweaks and modifications, Just can't get it going. Downloaded everything dealing with Pulseaudio and Alsa, tried doing some modifications, still haven't gotten anywhere, so I figured I'll ask here.

Anyone who has any ideas, no matter what it is, I'll give it a shot, I'm pretty much 100% setup (Wine, Flash, Nvidia drivers, programs I need, etc), sounds the only thing holdin me back.

Thanks

- Myst

Tests:
added !snd-pcm-oss & !snd_pcsp (According to something I read online dealing with snd-hda-intel)
Added options "snd-hda-intel index=0 model=auto" to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (no "s)

Computer Specs

Asus Model G72GX Laptop
Core2Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz
6GB DDR2
320GB Western Digital Drive
Nvidia 260M
snd-hda-intel is what pops up in sound checks.
Kernel version 2.6.33
Arch x64 release 2010.05

Trying to /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio start

:: Starting D-BUS system messagebus                                                                                      [DONE] 
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer                                                                                   [DONE] 
:: Starting pulseaudio daemon                                                                                            [FAIL]

E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory                                                                                                                         
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory                                                                                                                         
E: bluetooth-util.c: Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory                                                                                                                     
E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-bluetooth-discover" (argument: ""): initialization failed.                          
E: main.c: Module load failed.                                                                                                  
E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. 

Grabbing sound card info

[root@Necropolis /]# ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_hda_codec -> ../../snd_hda_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_hda_codec_realtek -> ../../snd_hda_codec_realtek
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_hda_intel -> ../../snd_hda_intel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_hwdep -> ../../snd_hwdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_seq -> ../../snd_seq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_seq_oss -> ../../snd_seq_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer
[root@Necropolis /]# lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_intel          22514   0
snd_hda_codec_realtek  258986  1
snd_seq_dummy          1439    0
snd_seq_oss            28928   0
snd_seq_midi_event     5412    1  snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                50530   5  snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         5233    3  snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_codec          68863   2  snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hwdep              6150    1  snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                70924   2  snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              19684   2  snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    57209   9  snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc         7161    2  snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
[root@Necropolis /]# ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      60 Aug 21 02:53 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 Aug 21 02:53 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 7 Aug 21 02:53 hwC0D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 6 Aug 21 02:56 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 5 Aug 21 02:56 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 Aug 21 02:56 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 Aug 21 02:53 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 Aug 21 02:53 timer

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Pulse Audio refuses to start

Are you starting dbus?

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wo7ke

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From: Chemnitz, Germany

Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 3

Re: Pulse Audio refuses to start

I'd recommend a step-by-step approach, as pulseaudio is on top of alsa. first things first. is alsa already working? are the channels unmuted?  what's the output of

# alsamixer

can your hear something with :

# aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav 

(taken from the archwiki)

if this works, which kind of environment do you use? shell or x11? why do you try to start pulseaudio as a daemon , it's not recommended by the pa-developer anyway (at least when working with a graphical environment). The rlght way to start is via autostart of

# start-pulseaudio-x11

give it a try.