Mysteries of pulseaudio

[Timothy Murphy]

Sound is working fine for me
on my Fedora-9 Thinkpad T43,
but when I boot I get the message
that pulseaudio is not working,
and sound is reverting to (I think) ac97.

I see in /var/log/messages the messages
Aug 23 10:22:46 carrie pulseaudio[2317]: 
        pid.c: Daemon already running.
Aug 23 10:22:46 carrie pulseaudio[2317]: 
        main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
However, pulseaudio daemon does not appear to be running now.

This seems to be a purely academic question,
but I'd be interested to know
(a) why pulseaudio is not running, and
(b) whether this matters?




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