Pulseaudio... again. How to restart it?

[Fernando Apesteguía]

Hi,

I'm having some issues with Pulseaudio (well, I have sound only half
of the times I boot my system...)

These are the synthoms:

mplayer file1.avi

....
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound
....

I tried with

$ pulseaudio -k
E: main.c: Failed to kill daemon.

I can't find the pulseaudio process. What's its name? Can I kill it if
it doesn't kill itself?

Thanks in advance.

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Fernando Apesteguía
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some issues with Pulseaudio (well, I have sound only half
> of the times I boot my system...)
>
> These are the synthoms:
>
> mplayer file1.avi
>
> ....
> AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
> Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
> Audio: no sound
> ....
>
> I tried with
>
> $ pulseaudio -k
> E: main.c: Failed to kill daemon.
>
> I can't find the pulseaudio process. What's its name? Can I kill it if
> it doesn't kill itself?

Sorry, pulseaudio -D worked.

However, I had sound cause pidgin was playing sounds each time I
received a message, though with an unusual delay (2 - 3 seconds after
the message arrival), so pulseaudio was running. Does -D perform any
kind of forced restart?

Thanks again
> Thanks in advance.

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:10:11PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa_ wrote:
> Sorry, pulseaudio -D worked.
>
> However, I had sound cause pidgin was playing sounds each time I
> received a message, though with an unusual delay (2 - 3 seconds after
> the message arrival), so pulseaudio was running. Does -D perform any
> kind of forced restart?

'pulseaudio -D' starts a new daemon process only, and does not kill a
running instance.  You probably want something like:

pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On 9/30/08, Paul W. Frields  wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:10:11PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa_ wrote:
> > Sorry, pulseaudio -D worked.
> >
> > However, I had sound cause pidgin was playing sounds each time I
> > received a message, though with an unusual delay (2 - 3 seconds after
> > the message arrival), so pulseaudio was running. Does -D perform any
> > kind of forced restart?
>
> 'pulseaudio -D' starts a new daemon process only, and does not kill a
> running instance.  You probably want something like:
>
> pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog

OK.
I'll do it the next time pulseaudio hangs up. But what if pulseaudio
-k doesn't kill it?

Thanks
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[Tim]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 23:10 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> However, I had sound cause pidgin was playing sounds each time I
> received a message, though with an unusual delay (2 - 3 seconds after
> the message arrival), so pulseaudio was running.

I stopped my Pidgin/something-else sound disasters, some time ago, by
changing the Pidgin preferences to use a "command" to play sounds, and
used paplay as the command.