'Twas brillig, and Fred Frigerio at 17/07/11 22:46 did gyre and gimble: > I have a strange problem. I have been running pa for a long time under > gentoo x86. However from a couple of days back it is not working > anymore (it was after a round of updates but I can't pinpoint what > might have done it) > > I can start pulseaudio -v without a problem. However I cannot connect > to it afterwards and I get the following error in syslog. > > pulseaudio[18226]: pid.c: Daemon already running. > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > This is what I get when starting pulseaudio -v > I: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy This implies some other application already has PA open. Some debug is needed I think. Can you attach (as .txt files) the output from: ck-list-sessions getfacl /dev/snd/* sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/pcm* ps aux | grep pulse xprop -root | grep PULSE Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
