On Sun, 13.04.08 10:28, Tanu Kaskinen (tanuk at iki.fi) 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". PA doesn't have seperate verbosity levels for stderr and syslog. If you don't get the message on stderr, you won't get it on syslog either. -vv is the way. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
