Mysteries of pulseaudio

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 13:10 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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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a - as user, does ps aux|grep pulse show any pulse process running?

b - as user, does 'pulseaudio -D' help?

Craig