On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 14:46 +0200, Antonio Trande wrote: > Hi all. > > Since I start to use kernels 3.6* in Fedora 17, pulseaudio has a strange > behavior. After system boot everything seems work fine, suddenly > pulseaudio daemon crashs, for example if I try to play a flash video > streaming (with gnash plugin). System audio is not audible, all volumes are > unchanged. > > My first attempts are: > > $ rm -rf .pulse > $ pulseaudio --kill > $ pulseaudio -D -vvvv > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. > > Does anyone encounter this type of problem ? > > I attach alsa-info and pulseaudio logs for more informations. In the pulseaudio log, this is the relevant error: E: [pulseaudio] socket-server.c: bind(): Address already in use E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed. Some old esound socket is left lingering, and pulseaudio isn't smart enough to handle that gracefully. The socket file is at /tmp/.esd-UID/socket - remove that and things should work again. You can also remove the line in /etc/pulse/default.pa that loads module-esound-protocol. That will ensure that you won't have this same problem again. Not loading the module should be pretty safe, since almost no application depends on esound these days. -- Tanu
