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eduardosm

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Registered: 2011-02-26

Posts: 18

Pulseaudio refuses to start.

In pavucontrol, I accidentally changed the output device of a flash application to the HDMI port. Then, pavucontrol froze, and if I open a new instance of pavucontrol, it freeze again. I decided to kill the pulseaudio server, and now it will not start again.

When I run "pulseaudio --start", I get:

N: [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at {85bbdbbb30a544d5a6083d1b6efcd7b0}unix:/tmp/pulse-rgCoGNfVlEIY/native, refusing to start/autospawn.

I tryed "pulseaudio --kill", "killall -s SIGKILL pulseaudio" and removing ~/.pulse and /tmp/pulse-*; but it stills does not start.

I tryed to find a solution, but I did not find anything useful.Any suggestion?

greengold

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Registered: 2010-01-30

Posts: 199

Re: Pulseaudio refuses to start.

pulseaudio is gr8 piece of software but it never works as it should...
I'm very interested about solution too!

greengold

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Registered: 2010-01-30

Posts: 199

Re: Pulseaudio refuses to start.

but if yout want to use pulseaudio over the network, I got simple workaround: just run pavucontrol on the server and server will appear on client...