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Hello there!
I was about to install pulseaudio following the wiki on my Archlinux64bits box.
( I've tried it on arch32, the same setup worked fine... )
After installing pulseaudio, alsa-plugins and configuring /etc/asound.conf
the daemon refuses to start up, giving NO ERROR MESSAGE
any ideas?
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Details please.
How are you starting the daemon up? Does a 'pulseaudio' process exist? Are you using --system mode or normal per-user daemon? What happens when you try to run pulseaudio manually? What changes did you make to your configuration files?
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Details please.
How are you starting the daemon up? Does a 'pulseaudio' process exist? Are you using --system mode or normal per-user daemon? What happens when you try to run pulseaudio manually? What changes did you make to your configuration files?
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OK.
1, INSTALLATION WAS:
[root@archie mate]# pacman -S pulseaudio alsa-plugins
terminated normally, no error message
2, configurated as a SYSTEM-WIDE DAEMON by editing (creating) /etc/asound.conf for alsa:
CODE:
----------------------
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
----------------------
and
enabling ( leaving ) the lines in /etc/pulse/system.pa
CODE:
------------------------
### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-hal-detect.so
load-module module-hal-detect
.else
----------------------
3, I'm starting pulse as a daemon with the /etc/rc.d/... method
[root@archie mate]# /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio start
:: Starting pulseaudio daemon [FAIL]
4, ps -ax | grep pulse shows no running processes...
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I dont know, where the daemon stores its logging info... maybe /var/log/daemon.log?! But you can simply run pulseaudio in a console and see what happens.
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Also the system wide mode is not in any way supported and should probably be removed alltogether.
AFAIK it started as a really bad hack somewhere inside Gentoo, who are now working on removing it again.
(See maintainer's blog for details... http://blog.flameeyes.eu/)
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I also have this issue with Pulse. I tried everything in the wiki to get pulseaudio to start. However, when I open up pavucontrol, it takes 5 seconds, then pulse starts. From there, I cannot restart it, but sound works. Might this be an issue with the daemon itself then?
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@AngryKoala
1. Don't add on questions to someone else's thread. Start your own thread.
2. Be specific on what you have/have not done ("tried everything in the wiki" doesn't help), especially error messages and changes to config files.
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SOLVED
I have tried to run pulseaudio from a console, it gave me an error
message while loading a module, so I've disabled the loading of
the module by uncommenting this lines in /etc/pulse/system.pa:
CODE:
------------------------------------------------------------
### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-device-restore
___________________________________________
everything is working fine now,
except these modules...
( i.e.: pulse starts and I have sound )
just a reminder: all of this happened on arch-x86_64,
I had no such problems with arch-i686
thanks for the ideas
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@AngryKoala
1. Don't add on questions to someone else's thread. Start your own thread.
2. Be specific on what you have/have not done ("tried everything in the wiki" doesn't help), especially error messages and changes to config files.
I didn't add a question, I was contributing to the same problem/solution. It was more like a suggestion, especially since the OP's problem was exactly mine. Also, I did not feel the need to post any error messages since the OP, once again, did that for me. Had I made my own thread, I would be scolded for posting the exact same problem.
TY scar for the fix.
Last edited by AngryKoala (2009-11-20 16:19:48)
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as jinks said... system mode is not always th best idea, try per user mode.
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