On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > '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 > Here it goes. The output from the fuser command is empty (I did run it as root). Also I am running gnome (2.32). Thank you Colin and Claudio -------------- next part -------------- Session1: unix-user = '1000' realname = 'Fred Frigerio' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = TRUE x11-display = ':0' x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7' display-device = '' remote-host-name = '' is-local = TRUE on-since = '2011-07-17T18:17:05.005817Z' login-session-id = '' -------------- next part -------------- # file: dev/snd/by-id # owner: root # group: root user::rwx group::r-x other::r-x # file: dev/snd/by-path # owner: root # group: root user::rwx group::r-x other::r-x # file: dev/snd/controlC0 # owner: root # group: audio user::rw- user:ffrigerio:rw- group::rw- mask::rw- other::--- # file: dev/snd/pcmC0D0c # owner: root # group: audio user::rw- user:ffrigerio:rw- group::rw- mask::rw- other::--- # file: dev/snd/pcmC0D0p # owner: root # group: audio user::rw- user:ffrigerio:rw- group::rw- mask::rw- other::--- # file: dev/snd/seq # owner: root # group: audio user::rw- user:ffrigerio:rw- group::rw- mask::rw- other::--- # file: dev/snd/timer # owner: root # group: audio user::rw- user:ffrigerio:rw- group::rw- mask::rw- other::--- -------------- next part -------------- 1000 19362 0.0 0.0 103144 4748 pts/1 S<l+ Jul17 0:00 pulseaudio -v 1000 19365 0.0 0.0 21676 3620 pts/1 Sl+ Jul17 0:00 /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper 1000 22427 0.0 0.0 3884 724 pts/3 S+ 07:31 0:00 grep --colour=auto pulse -------------- next part -------------- PULSE_COOKIE(STRING) = "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" PULSE_SESSION_ID(STRING) = "b3211f26c53652cb6a33912f0000004d-1310926624.978398-356352062" PULSE_ID(STRING) = "1000 at b3211f26c53652cb6a33912f0000004d/19362"
