F10 - pulseaudio not running

Mike Fleetwood mike.fleetwood at googlemail.com
Mon May 4 12:05:53 UTC 2009


Hi,

On my work Fedora 10 desktop (upgraded directly from F8) pulseaudio
doesn't run and I don't know how to fix it.  On my home Fedora 10
desktop (upgraded to F9 then F10) pulseaudio runs OK.  As a workaround
I have run "chmod o+rw /dev/snd/*" to allow Audacious audio player as
non-root user access to ALSA kernel audio devices to be able to play
music.  Help troubleshooting pulseaudio appreciated.

Attempting to start pulseaudio manually ...
[mfleetwo at mfleetwo3 ~]$ pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
[WARN 24009] polkit-session.c:144:polkit_session_set_uid(): session != NULL
 Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
[mfleetwo at mfleetwo3 ~]$ echo $?
1
[mfleetwo at mfleetwo3 ~]$ ps -ef | fgrep pulseaudio
mfleetwo 24102 22684  0 12:40 pts/0    00:00:00 fgrep pulseaudio

Thanks in advance,
Mike




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