Howdy all,
When attempting to start PulseAudio's server, I get the following
uninformative error message:
$ sudo /usr/bin/pulseaudio
E: main.c: daemon startup failed.
What can I do to diagnose this further?
Other information that may be relevant:
$ uname -a
Linux lily 2.6.24-1-powerpc #1 Mon Feb 11 12:53:42 CET 2008 ppc GNU/Linux
$ /usr/bin/pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 0.9.9
$ aptitude show pulseaudio | grep '^\(Version\|Maintainer\):'
Version: 0.9.9-1
Maintainer: CJ van den Berg <cj at vdbonline.com>
$ cat /etc/pulse/daemon.conf | grep -v '^$' | grep -v '^[#;]'
daemonize = yes
system-instance = yes
high-priority = no
An strace of the process looks like (truncated):
$ sudo strace /usr/bin/pulseaudio
[...]
read(3, "# /etc/pulse/daemon.conf\n# Syste"..., 4096) = 1682
read(3, "", 4096) = 0
close(3) = 0
munmap(0x4802c000, 4096) = 0
open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
read(3, "\253\332\242\312", 4) = 4
close(3) = 0
pipe([3, 4]) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x4802a5c8) = 25895
close(4) = 0
read(3, "\0\0\0\1", 4) = 4
ioctl(2, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
write(2, "E: main.c: \33[1;31mdaemon startup"..., 45E: main.c: daemon startup failed.
) = 45
close(3) = 0
exit_group(1) = ?
Process 25894 detached
The whole strace output can be seen at <URL:http://pastebin.ca/983265>
until 2008-04-27.
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