/var/run is cleared every time you reboot. There seems to be a 0.9.11 bug with the system-wide daemon improperly creating /var/run/pulse. It may be creating it before it changes user, which means it is owned by root, which is basically shooting itself in the foot. What I do on boot-up (once per reboot) is this: # killall pulseaudio # mkdir -m 0755 -p /var/run/pulse # chown pulse:pulse /var/run/pulse # pulseaudio Unnecessary if you don't use the system-wide daemon, but if you _do_ use it, this directory needs to exist and have these permissions. Maybe you could rename the real pulseaudio binary to pulseaudio-bin and create a script /usr/bin/pulseaudio that sets up /var/run/pulse and then runs pulseaudio-bin. Careful; don't call 'pulseaudio' from within your script, but pulseaudio-bin! ;) Infinite recursion otherwise. :) Sean On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > Rafa? Mu?y?o wrote: >> I spoke too soon. >> It was working for some time, but on one of subsequent restarts, >> it stopped working again. >> The messages were: >> Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. >> Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original >> dlopen loader. >> Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Found user 'pulse' (UID 107) and >> group 'pulse' (GID 444). >> Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Successfully dropped root privileges. >> Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 0.9.11 >> Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes >> Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /var/run/pulse. >> Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: yes >> Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] pid.c: Failed to write PID file. >> Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >> Jul 25 20:15:21 [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. > > Check the ownership of the pid file in /var/run/pulse... I suspect it is > owned by root and the pulse user cannot write it. > >> And I may have something to add on 'internet radio stream noisy when >> module-suspend-on-idle is loaded' topic. >> While I can't be sure it's related and can't really test it now (as I >> went back to 0.5.10), I got a strange effect in audacious (using native >> pulse output, I think). When I started playback, I got some terrible >> noise, but the moment I changed the volume, the sound was OK again. >> >> And is there any way for 0.5.11 to work with wine, cause in my setup, >> it works with 0.5.10 (pulseaudio) and 1.1.2 (wine) (well, more or less, >> I'm not sure about exact timing, but the sound is good enough), >> but if I go to 0.5.11, wine goes into permanent XRUN recovery. >> Yes, I know about wine/alsa problems (i.e. api abuse/lack of needed api) >> but if there's a way for 0.5.10 to work, there may be a way for >> 0.5.11, too. > > > Do you have something against the number 9? It's pulseaudio 0.9.11, not > 0.5.11 ;) > > I've not really tried things like this yet myself but hopefully other > users can help :) > > Col > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss >
