Pulseaudio refuses connections from applications
Submitted by Lukáš Růžička
Assigned to pul..@..op.org
Link to original bug (#107206)
Description
Description of problem:
On Fedora 28 (updates-testing on) in Fluxbox, whenever the computer is freshly started, pulseaudio refuses to connect applications which results in no sound available. The daemon is running.
The journal reports the following:
Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus rtkit-daemon[1101]: Successfully made thread 2069 of process 2069 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus pulseaudio[2069]: bind(): Address already in use Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus pulseaudio[2069]: Failed to load module "module-native-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus pulseaudio[2069]: Failed to register as a handsfree audio agent with ofono: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.ofono was not provided by any .service files Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus rtkit-daemon[1101]: Successfully made thread 2074 of process 2074 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus pulseaudio[2074]: E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus pulseaudio[2074]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus rtkit-daemon[1101]: Successfully made thread 2087 of process 2087 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus pulseaudio[2087]: E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus pulseaudio[2087]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Jul 09 12:52:10 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus rtkit-daemon[1101]: Successfully made thread 2090 of process 2090 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus pulseaudio[2090]: E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus pulseaudio[2090]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus rtkit-daemon[1101]: Successfully made thread 2126 of process 2126 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus pulseaudio[2126]: E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus pulseaudio[2126]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus rtkit-daemon[1101]: Successfully made thread 2166 of process 2166 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus pulseaudio[2166]: E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus pulseaudio[2166]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jul 09 12:52:11 platypus systemd[1924]: pulseaudio.socket: Failed with result 'service-start-limit-hit'.
When I start firefox in console mode and try to play a video with sound:
[Child 2768, MediaPlayback #2] WARNING: 7f294cac47c0 OpenCubeb() failed to init cubeb: file /builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-61.0/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp, line 390 [Child 2768, MediaPlayback #2] WARNING: Decoder=7f294c31a880 [OnMediaSinkAudioError]: file /builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-61.0/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp, line 3716
###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PClientSourceOp::Msg___delete__ Route error: message sent to unknown actor ID
Mplayer reports this:
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse' [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Connection refused Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa' [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Connection refused AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused [AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused
[AO SDL] Unable to open audio: No available audio device DVB card number must be between 1 and 4 AO: [null] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
alsamixer:
ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused
cannot open mixer: Connection refused
pavucontrol:
Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pulseaudio-12.0-3.fc28.x86_64 on Linux platypus 4.17.4-200.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 3 14:06:39 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
- Reboot the computer.
- Log into a Fluxbox session.
- Try to play songs.
Actual results:
Pulseaudio refuses connections.
Expected results:
Pulseaudio connects applications to the device and play sounds.
Additional info:
- In Gnome shell, pulseaudio behaves correctly.
- Running pulseaudio -k and pulseaudio -D solves the situation and pulseaudio behaves correctly until next reboot.