[Solved] pulseaudio wont' start as service

lostinlinux · Guru Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 341

In trying to start pulseaudio as a service I simply get !! (/etc/init.d/pulseaudio start) but if I do a pulseaudio -vv everything works fine. Is there something that needs to change in order to get it to start on boot? I have seen on pulseaudio's site that they recommend the followng ln -sf /usr/local/bin/esdcompat /usr/bin/esd, but I don't have a /usr/local/bin/esdcompat. There is a /usr/bin/esdcompat but not in /usr/local. Any ideas?
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billydv · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject:

How did you solve this, it doesn't start for me.
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lostinlinux · Guru Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 341

I ended up not starting this as a service and instead start it on a per user basis like is recommended on PulseAudio's site.
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billydv · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject:

So, just so I understand, you emerged the pulseaudio packages, left alsasound to start as a service as is normal (starts at boot runlevel), then used a kde autostart as you login to start pulseaudio?
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lostinlinux · Guru Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 341

I am not using KDE, so I can't speak on how to do it in KDE. I did this with Gnome, so I just added it to my gnome-session. I'd assume it would be basically the same thing in KDE though.
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billydv · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:39 am Post subject:

Did you notice that there are no icons? Just that ugly empty page?
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lostinlinux · Guru Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 341

I am not sure what you are referring to, but if it's the PulseAudio apps mine have icons in the Gnome menus.
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billydv · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject:

In kde they show a blank page for an icon.
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lostinlinux · Guru Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 341

not sure why they'd be different, but mine has all the icons....
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sphantom · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 72

Check /var/log/messages for output. I just installed it today and found my installation couldn't load module-x11-publish. Commenting out line 83 in /etc/pulse/default.pa (the line which loads that module) allowed me to start the service.

Not sure if that's reccomended though, technically I don't have a working install yet =)

EDIT: I'm up and running after emerging gst-plugins-pulse

lostinlinux · Guru Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 341

so you have it running as a service?

Do you get the login/logout sounds? for whatever reason I get all the other sounds but not those.
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Animal-X® · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject:

pulseaudio not start for me:

area51 portage # /etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart
* Starting pulseaudio ...
pulseaudio: pulsecore/mutex-posix.c:98: pa_mutex_unlock: Assertiva `pthread_mutex_unlock(&m->mutex) == 0' falhou.
/lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 231: 1442 Abortado /sbin/start-stop-daemon '--start' '--exec' '/usr/bin/pulseaudio' '--' '--log-target=syslog' '--disallow-module-loading=1' '--fail=1' '--daemonize=1' '--system' [ !! ]

area51 portage # pulseaudio -vv
I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
pulseaudio: pulsecore/mutex-posix.c:98: pa_mutex_unlock: Assertiva `pthread_mutex_unlock(&m->mutex) == 0' falhou.
Abortado
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devicepedia · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 1

I am not sure why they are different, am little confused.

Animal-X® · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Solved !

I remove the portato and pulseaudio daemon start!
Don't ask me....uhauahuah
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E001754 · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject:

For me, it worked only after emerging the utility packages described in the pulseaudio.org site :

E001754 · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject:

After a first reboot, pulseaudio daemon still refuses to start (default runlevel).
Issuing command "pulseaudio -vv" or "pulseaudio" or even "pulseaudio -D" works only if made first as root (starting as user ends with a log saying that it can't create a directory in /tmp, but as root, the directory can be created and then it works as user...).
However, no more sound comes from audacious with the pulseaudio plugin...

EDIT : finally, after several attemps and one reboot, it seems to work as I was describing in my first post... Forget this second post.