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tzochios

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Registered: 2009-11-23

Posts: 8

Fluidsynth fails to create server socket

Greetings fellow Archers! As the title describes, fluidsynth cannot run as a server. When trying to run fluidsynth as simple user:

fluidsynth -l -i -s -a pulseaudio -m alsa_seq -r 48000  /usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GS.sf2

I get the following output:

FluidSynth version 1.1.9
Copyright (C) 2000-2018 Peter Hanappe and others.
Distributed under the LGPL license.
SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc.

fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]]
...
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: Using PulseAudio driver
fluidsynth: error: Failed to create server socket
Failed to create the server.
Continuing without it.

On the other hand, when I try to execute the same command with root privileges the output changes as expected, in accordance with the relevant wiki entry concerning pulseaudio and fluidsynth.

FluidSynth version 1.1.9
Copyright (C) 2000-2018 Peter Hanappe and others.
Distributed under the LGPL license.
SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc.

fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]
...
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=0]
No protocol specified
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
fluidsynth: error: Failed to create PulseAudio connection
Failed to create the audio driver

My intention is to eventually load fluidsynth as systemd/user service, so I would welcome any hint that on why the socket creation fails. Thank you for your help.