Pulse audio udev starup error

Dr Small · 2008-06-22 02:52:08

Greetings,
I was installing pulseaudio per the wiki article at the ArchLinux Wiki, installed all of the applications, and got to the end to try to start it, and this is the error I received:

[drsmall@darkghost ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio start
:: Starting D-BUS system messagebus                                      [BUSY] Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for username "dbus"
                                                                         [FAIL] 
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer                                   [BUSY]

Can someone tell me what I missed? I would like to get pulseaudio working so I can have some sound again.

Thanks,
Dr Small

Barrucadu · 2008-06-22 17:49:36

Aha, this sounds very similar to a problem I had with it auto-starting on my computer - a HAL problem. Are you using module-hal-detect? If so, the module-hal-detect section of my latest blog post may be useful.

Dr Small · 2008-06-22 18:55:58

Well, HAL doesn't seem to be the problem. I have tried multiple ways with the modules, and it doesn't seem to be it. I think it is more of a udev problem than anything. Also, I didn't have avahi-daemon, so I installed it, but it won't start either.

I did add avahi-daemon and pulseaudio to the DAEMONS array, but the system wouldn't boot past them then, because they still failed. So I had to chroot into the system and !disable them from running. The real key to this error string is:

Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for username "dbus"

But it's beyond me.

Dr Small

Barrucadu · 2008-06-22 20:25:33

It may not be this simple - but if you are just missing a user called dbus, this may be worth a shot:

sudo useradd dbus

If no joy, you could try reinstalling dbus.

Last edited by Barrucadu (2008-06-22 20:48:17)

Dr Small · 2008-06-23 01:37:00

That did the trick for solving the dbus error. Thanks.
Now I am just getting:

/usr/bin/pulseaudio: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Barrucadu · 2008-06-23 07:39:39

Do you have libtool installed? I'm pretty sure that file is included with it. If not, it just sounds like something went wrong when installing the PulseAudio dependencies.

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Pulse audio udev starup error

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