Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:43:55PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> 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? > > I believe /var/log/syslog has more error messages. If they > aren't informative enough, you can try increased verbosity > by starting with the parameter "-vv". Also don't start pulse as root unless you are running a --system daemon (which is generally not recommended) - it's better to run a pulseaudio daemon for each user and let consolekit take care of user switching etc. HTH Col
