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PYTH

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Registered: 2012-04-02

Posts: 56

Pulseaudio: Daemon startup failed

I am trying to get startx to work and when I run it it comes up with:

E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed (in red)

When I run pulseaudio --start I get the same thing.

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Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 1,539

Re: Pulseaudio: Daemon startup failed

Maybe increased verbosity will give you more useful info? (-vvvv or smth.)

And you could be a bit more verbose, too Did you ensure dbus is running? Do you have consolekit/policykit or are you using the audio group (not sure how well the latter works with Arch's default config, haven't tried it).

woffa

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Registered: 2011-05-30

Posts: 7

Re: Pulseaudio: Daemon startup failed

try resetting Pulse Audio

$ rm -rf ~/.pulse*
$ rm -rf /tmp/pulse*