pulseaudio fails to start on FreeBSD: Daemon startup failed.
Submitted by Yuri
Assigned to pul..@..op.org
Description
I am getting this error message: E: main.c: Daemon startup failed. I am running '/usr/local/bin/pulseaudio --log-level=4 -vvvv --start' Debug log, see below. doesn't have any immediste clues. pulseaudio-0.9.23_2 installed from FreeBSD ports. system call log with 'truss' didn't give any clues either.
---log---
Jan 8 10:40:20 myhost pulseaudio[55278]: main.c: Running on host: FreeBSD amd64 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #1 r244709: Wed Dec 26 12:57:32 PST 2012 <email address hidden>
:/usr/obj/usr/src-releng.9.1/sys/GENERIC
Jan 8 10:40:20 myhost pulseaudio[55278]: main.c: Found 8 CPUs.
Jan 8 10:40:20 myhost pulseaudio[55278]: main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: yes
Jan 8 10:40:20 myhost pulseaudio[55278]: main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
Jan 8 10:40:20 myhost pulseaudio[55278]: main.c: Running in VM: no
Jan 8 10:40:20 myhost pulseaudio[55278]: main.c: Optimized build: yes
Jan 8 10:40:20 myhost pulseaudio[55278]: main.c: All asserts enabled.
Jan 8 10:40:20 myhost pulseaudio[55278]: memblock.c: Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472
Jan 8 10:45:33 myhost pulseaudio[55525]: main.c: Compilation host: amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1
Jan 8 10:45:33 myhost pulseaudio[55525]: main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Winline -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wformat-nonliteral -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
Jan 8 10:45:33 myhost pulseaudio[55525]: main.c: Running on host: FreeBSD amd64 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #1 r244709: Wed Dec 26 12:57:32 PST 2012 <email address hidden>
:/usr/obj/usr/src-releng.9.1/sys/GENERIC
Jan 8 10:45:33 myhost pulseaudio[55525]: main.c: Found 8 CPUs.
Jan 8 10:45:33 myhost pulseaudio[55525]: main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: yes
Jan 8 10:45:33 myhost pulseaudio[55525]: main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
Jan 8 10:45:33 myhost pulseaudio[55525]: main.c: Running in VM: no
Jan 8 10:45:33 myhost pulseaudio[55525]: main.c: Optimized build: yes
Jan 8 10:45:33 myhost pulseaudio[55525]: main.c: All asserts enabled.
Jan 8 10:45:33 myhost pulseaudio[55525]: memblock.c: Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472
Jan 8 10:45:37 myhost pulseaudio[55540]: main.c: Compilation host: amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1
Jan 8 10:45:37 myhost pulseaudio[55540]: main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Winline -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wformat-nonliteral -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
Jan 8 10:45:37 myhost pulseaudio[55540]: main.c: Running on host: FreeBSD amd64 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #1 r244709: Wed Dec 26 12:57:32 PST 2012 <email address hidden>
:/usr/obj/usr/src-releng.9.1/sys/GENERIC
Jan 8 10:45:37 myhost pulseaudio[55540]: main.c: Found 8 CPUs.
Jan 8 10:45:37 myhost pulseaudio[55540]: main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: yes
Jan 8 10:45:37 myhost pulseaudio[55540]: main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
Jan 8 10:45:37 myhost pulseaudio[55540]: main.c: Running in VM: no
Jan 8 10:45:37 myhost pulseaudio[55540]: main.c: Optimized build: yes
Jan 8 10:45:37 myhost pulseaudio[55540]: main.c: All asserts enabled.
Jan 8 10:45:37 myhost pulseaudio[55540]: memblock.c: Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472