On 2017-08-28 10:31, namittal at codeaurora.org wrote: > On 2017-08-26 18:52, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: >> On Mon, 2017-08-21 at 12:41 +0530, namittal at codeaurora.org wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am getting this error â??Daemon not respondingâ??. >>> >>> / # pulseaudio --kill >>> / # pulseaudio --start >>> W: >>> [pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.This >>> program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is >>> specified). >>> D: >>> [pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.scandir("/home/root/.config/pulse/client.conf.d") >>> failed: No such file or directory >>> D: >>> [pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Parsing >>> configuration file '/home/root/.config/pulse/client.conf' >>> I: >>> [pulseaudio][/local/mnt/workspace/LE01Aug/poky/build/tmp-glibc/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-oemllib32-linux-gnueabi/lib32-pulseaudio/6.Daemon >>> startup successful. >>> / # pacmd list >>> Daemon not responding. >> >> pacmd doesn't work when pulseaudio is running in the system mode. Use >> pactl instead. The difference between the two programs is that pactl >> uses the normal method of speaking to the server and pactl uses a >> weird >> method. pactl supports almost everything that pacmd does, and pactl is >> in general recommended over pacmd. >> >>> >>> Additional info. >>> >>> / # ps aux | grep -i pulse >>> 2228 root 0:07 pulseaudio >>> 2242 pulse 0:00 pulseaudio -D --system >>> 2312 root 0:00 {grep} /bin/busybox /bin/grep -i pulse >> >> So you've managed to start pulseaudio as a per-user instance for root, >> and another instance is running in the system mode. There should be >> only one instance running. Which mode do you want to use? If you don't >> know, probably the system mode is the right choice. > > I have restarted system and run only one pulseaudio in system mode and > pactl instead of pacmd. > > / # pactl info > Connection failure: Access denied > > / # ps aux | grep -i pulse > 2117 pulse 3:32 pulseaudio -D --system > 2129 root 0:00 {grep} /bin/busybox /bin/grep -i pulse > > any idea why this happening ? > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss I rebooted the system and then I tried running pulseaudio using pulseaudio --start and then tried using command pactl list it worked!! But / # pacat Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused pacat is not working any help?