Cannot start PulseAudio.

Question

I followed every single step for installing pulseaudio using this wiki page :
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio
But daemon doesn't want to start !
[root@fredo-arch fred]# /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio start
:: Starting PulseAudio [BUSY]
E: main.c: daemon startup failed.
My daemons line in /etc/rc.conf :
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng avahi-daemon hal pulseaudio !network dhcdbd networkmanager iptables netfs crond fam @cups stbd vmware gdm)
And my groups :
$ groups
sys adm disk lp wheel network video audio optical storage scanner camera users stb-admin pulse-access
As pulseaudio will be included in gnome 2.22.x...
When starting /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio as root I get :
[root@fredo-arch rc.d]# pulseaudio start
W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified).
W: alsa-util.c: Device (null) doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
W: alsa-util.c: Device (null) doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
E: module.c: Failed to open module "module-esound-protocol-unix": libsocket-util.so: Cannot open shared file: No such file or directory
E: main.c: Module load failed.
E: main.c: failed to initialize daemon.
But file doesn't seems to be available ?!
[fred@fredo-arch rc.d]$ yaourt -Ql pulseaudio | grep socket
pulseaudio /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/libsocket-client.so
pulseaudio /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/libsocket-server.so
Any idea, anyone ?
Busted package ?!
Last edited by jolinfire (2008-02-14 11:28:32)

Answer 1

Any idea, anyone ?
Try building the PKGBUILD yourself.
A quick diff between the contents of the 64bit and 32bit binary packages shows the 64bit one is missing the following files:
/usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-bt-proximity.so
/usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/libsocket-util.so
/usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/libipacl.so
/usr/libexec/pulse/bt-proximity-helper