[Solved] pulseaudio wont' start as service

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lostinlinux · Post by **lostinlinux** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:39 pm

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?

billydv · Post by **billydv** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:42 pm

How did you solve this, it doesn't start for me.

lostinlinux · Post by **lostinlinux** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:41 pm

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.

billydv · Post by **billydv** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:37 pm

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?

lostinlinux · Post by **lostinlinux** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:52 pm

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.

billydv · Post by **billydv** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:39 am

Did you notice that there are no icons? Just that ugly empty page?

lostinlinux · Post by **lostinlinux** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:53 pm

I am not sure what you are referring to, but if it's the PulseAudio apps mine have icons in the Gnome menus.

billydv · Post by **billydv** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:41 pm

In kde they show a blank page for an icon.

lostinlinux · Post by **lostinlinux** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:46 am

not sure why they'd be different, but mine has all the icons....

sphantom · Post by **sphantom** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:31 am

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 · Post by **lostinlinux** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:16 am

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.

Animal-X® · Post by **Animal-X®** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:58 pm

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

devicepedia · Post by **devicepedia** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:52 pm

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

Animal-X® · Post by **Animal-X®** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:36 pm

I remove the portato and pulseaudio daemon start!
Don't ask me....uhauahuah

E001754 · Post by **E001754** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:00 pm

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

emerge pavucontrol pavumeter paman padevchooser paprefs

Then, starting the alsasound daemon (added to boot runlevel for next reboot).

Then, simply typing "pulseaudio -D" (-D is for daemonize after startup), as user, not as root.

Now, my audacious is playing using the pulseaudio daemon server, but still no sound in swfdec (I was hoping this could give me sound in youtube). I'll try to restart firefox just after this post and see if there was missing just a firefox restart...

Hope this helps

E001754 · Post by **E001754** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:19 pm

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.

[Solved] pulseaudio wont' start as service

[Solved] pulseaudio wont' start as service

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