sound

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 21:12 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 10:38 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the reply, I may likely have needed them had I not figured
> >> out the solution; although Mr. Guomundsson's solution returned the
> >> following:
> >>
> >> $ pulseaudio
> >> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
> >> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
> >> $ pulseaudio -k && sleep 5 && pulseaudio -D
> >> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
> >>
> >> and I may have needed more information.
> >
> > PA respawns, by default, when it dies. You have to create a
> > ~/.pulse/client.conf file with:
> >
> > autospawn = no
> >
> > if you want to run it manually to get debugging output. I guess Johann
> > already did this and then forgot it was necessary :)

> Is it necessary to do this since I have fixed the problem?

Not at all, just if you ever need to debug a PA issue in future. Thought
I'd mention it for General Educational Purposes. :)
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