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Stythys

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Pulseaudio Daemon Startup

[syth@Imperium ~]$ sudo /usr/bin/pulseaudio --fail=1 --daemonize=1 --system
W: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-exit not set!
W: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-module-loading not set!
N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode!
N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling exit idle time!
E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.

any ideas? and yes, I read the wiki where it said to uncomment the "fail" in my /etc/pulse/system.pa, but that line doesn't exist in mine.

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ngoonee

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Re: Pulseaudio Daemon Startup

Run per-user, system mode is a bad idea except for very specific use-cases. If you DO want to use system mode, use /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio instead of your own line with options.

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Stythys

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Re: Pulseaudio Daemon Startup

I am using /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio...it's just I just get a generic [FAIL] message with that so I looked in the file to get the command it was running, and ran it myself to see the error. I mean this is just the standard pacman -S pulseaudio...should I not be using the default options?

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ngoonee

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Re: Pulseaudio Daemon Startup

You should not be using --system, at all. /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio shouldn't exist, IMO. Pulseaudio should just be run as `pulseaudio` from the CLI.

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