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mybestaccount

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Registered: 2012-06-30

Posts: 9

[solved]Pulseaudio daemon not starting

Pulseaudio's been running great for the past couple works, ever since I had it. Then yesterday I did an -Syu, and pulseaudio is no longer starting. I tried deleting ~/.pulse, /tmp/pulse*, and /etc/pulse/, and then reinstalling pulseaudio (completely fresh install right?) but it still failed to start daemon. I tried rebooting, no help. Sound is only coming from Alsa.

Here is the output from pulseaudio -vvvv:
http://pastebin.com/gjedPYun

So, any ideas?

Last edited by mybestaccount (2012-07-19 13:32:21)

jwele

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Registered: 2012-07-03

Posts: 62

Re: [solved]Pulseaudio daemon not starting

I think this happened to me and what I hat to do was add a daemon to my /etc/rc.conf file.  could have been as easy as putting dbus in the front of the daemon list. Can you post your rc.conf for me?

jwele

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Registered: 2012-07-03

Posts: 62

Re: [solved]Pulseaudio daemon not starting

"Pulseaudio requires dbus to function. This is very likely already added in the daemons array, if not consider adding it" 

source

mybestaccount

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Registered: 2012-06-30

Posts: 9

Re: [solved]Pulseaudio daemon not starting

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# DAEMON_LOCALE: If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon
# startup and during the boot process. If set to 'no', the C locale is used.
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "", "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
#   in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
#   Note: Using "localtime" is discouraged, using "" makes hwclock fall back
#   to the value in /var/lib/hwclock/adjfile
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
#   Note: if unset, the value in /etc/localtime is used unchanged
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
#
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="America/New_York"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Blacklisting is no longer supported.
#   Replace every !module by an entry as on the following line in a file in
#   /etc/modprobe.d:
#     blacklist module
#   See "man modprobe.conf" for details.
#
MODULES=(ndiswrapper alsa)

# Udev settle timeout (default to 30)
UDEV_TIMEOUT=30

# Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) Volumes at startup
USEDMRAID="no"

# Scan for BTRFS volumes at startup
USEBTRFS="no"

# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
#
HOSTNAME="pc3"

# Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
#
# Wired network setup
#   - interface: name of device (required)
#   - address: IP address (leave blank for DHCP)
#   - netmask: subnet mask (ignored for DHCP) (optional, defaults to 255.255.255.0)
#   - broadcast: broadcast address (ignored for DHCP) (optional)
#   - gateway: default route (ignored for DHCP)
# 
# Static IP example
# interface=eth0
# address=192.168.0.2
# netmask=255.255.255.0
# broadcast=192.168.0.255
# gateway=192.168.0.1
#
# DHCP example
#interface=eth0
#address=
#netmask=
#gateway=

interface=eth0
address=
netmask=
broadcast=
gateway=

#INTERFACES=(eth0 wlan0)

# Setting this to "yes" will skip network shutdown.
# This is required if your root device is on NFS.
NETWORK_PERSIST="no"

# Enable these netcfg profiles at boot-up. These are useful if you happen to
# need more advanced network features than the simple network service
# supports, such as multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
#   - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
#   - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
#
# This requires the netcfg package
#
#NETWORKS=(main)

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
# If something other takes care of your hardware clock (ntpd, dual-boot...)
# you should disable 'hwclock' here.
#
DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng dbus !network !dhcpcd !networkmanager netfs crond wicd sshd sensors)

dbus is in the daemons array.

illusionist

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Registered: 2012-04-03

Posts: 498

Re: [solved]Pulseaudio daemon not starting

check your files in /etc/pulse/, it looks like pulse is having trouble determining your pcm card.
Look here(Pulseaudio) for your problem, especially the "Determining soundcard in the system" section.

Last edited by illusionist (2012-07-18 11:53:46)

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mybestaccount

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Registered: 2012-06-30

Posts: 9

Re: [solved]Pulseaudio daemon not starting

Well I set it to hw:1,0 in /etc/pulse/default.pa with

load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0

The output is now 1200 lines shorter, but it still doesn't start.
http://pastebin.com/eLjsM8dm

illusionist

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Registered: 2012-04-03

Posts: 498

Re: [solved]Pulseaudio daemon not starting

delete your .pulse folder, restart pulseaudio and check your settings in "pavucontrol"

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mybestaccount

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Registered: 2012-06-30

Posts: 9

Re: [solved]Pulseaudio daemon not starting

Shit. pavucontrol wouldn't start, some error. I removed that. But then I thought about the other programs which change settings, and thought about paprefs. So I start that and unchecked the only setting there which was checked, and pulseaudio started!