init and pulseaudio

[Chris Rouch]

On 1/20/08, Reik Red <reikred at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why would the command
>
>      /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start
>
>  work, whereas the command
>
>      service pulseaudio start
>
>  produces an X11 error "XOpenDisplay() failed" as seen below?

I would guess that in the first case you have write access to the
display and in the second you don't. In any case, if you run
pulseaudio as a service  you want to disable x11. The simplest way to
do this is to remove the pulseaudio-module-x11 rpm.

Regards,

Chris


>
>  I'm baffled. Granted, I hacked /etc/init.d/pulseaudio myself, but
>  how could it produce such different results?
>
>  Reik
>
>  PS: the reason I want to have pulseaudio as a service is that I don't
>  use gnome or kde, and hence have no simple way of starting pulseaudio
>  automatically when a session starts.
>
>  ==============================
>  (root) 111 > /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start
>  Starting PulseAudio Daemon: pulseaudio.
>
>  (root) 112 > W: main.c: Warning: home directory of user 'pulse' is not '/var/run/pulse', ignoring.
>  W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
>  W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
>  ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
>  ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
>
>  (root) 112 > /etc/init.d/pulseaudio stop
>  Stopping PulseAudio Daemon: pulseaudio.
>
>  (root) 113 > service pulseaudio start
>  Starting PulseAudio Daemon: pulseaudio.
>
>  (root) 114 > W: main.c: Warning: home directory of user 'pulse' is not '/var/run/pulse', ignoring.
>  W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
>  W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
>  ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
>  ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
>  NOTE: HERE IS THE NEW ERROR
>  E: x11wrap.c: XOpenDisplay() failed
>  E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-x11-publish" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
>  E: main.c: Module load failed.
>  E: main.c: failed to initialize daemon.
>  ==============================
>
>
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