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jolinfire

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From: France

Registered: 2007-12-21

Posts: 176

Cannot start PulseAudio.

I followed every single step for installing pulseaudio using this wiki page :

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio

But daemon doesn't want to start !

[root@fredo-arch fred]# /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio start
:: Starting PulseAudio                                                   [BUSY]
E: main.c: daemon startup failed.

My daemons line in /etc/rc.conf :

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng avahi-daemon hal pulseaudio !network dhcdbd networkmanager iptables netfs crond fam @cups stbd vmware gdm)

And my groups :

$ groups
sys adm disk lp wheel network video audio optical storage scanner camera users stb-admin pulse-access

As pulseaudio will be included in gnome 2.22.x...

When starting /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio as root I get :

[root@fredo-arch rc.d]# pulseaudio start
W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified).
W: alsa-util.c: Device (null) doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
W: alsa-util.c: Device (null) doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
E: module.c: Failed to open module "module-esound-protocol-unix": libsocket-util.so: Cannot open shared file: No such file or directory
E: main.c: Module load failed.
E: main.c: failed to initialize daemon.

But file doesn't seems to be available ?!

[fred@fredo-arch rc.d]$ yaourt -Ql pulseaudio | grep socket
pulseaudio /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/libsocket-client.so
pulseaudio /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/libsocket-server.so

Any idea, anyone ?

Busted package ?!

Last edited by jolinfire (2008-02-14 11:28:32)

kappa

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Registered: 2006-11-10

Posts: 26

Re: Cannot start PulseAudio.

Any idea, anyone ?

Try building the PKGBUILD yourself.

A quick diff between the contents of the 64bit and 32bit binary packages shows the 64bit one is missing the following files:

/usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-bt-proximity.so
/usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/libsocket-util.so
/usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/libipacl.so
/usr/libexec/pulse/bt-proximity-helper

jolinfire

Member

From: France

Registered: 2007-12-21

Posts: 176

Re: Cannot start PulseAudio.

Ok. I will try this. After removing pulseaudio, I cannot get any system sound to be played with ESD

Last edited by jolinfire (2008-02-14 14:58:01)

reshlliw

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Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 7

Re: Cannot start PulseAudio.

I was having the same problem and have just rebuild pulseaudio using a simple makepkg from the ABS tree, installed it and it works fine for me now.

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Cannot start PulseAudio.

I run PulseAudio. I have done everything the wiki article said line by line. And it works perfectly. The only thing that annoys me is that it's mute at system start. I always have to unmute it.