Control: tags -1 moreinfo Control: severity -1 normal On 5 February 2017 at 05:19, Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: pulseaudio > Version: 10.0-1 > Severity: minor > > I never noticed pulseaudio explicitly on my system, especially I did > not configure anything. > > Since updating to 10.0-1 I see the following (new) error messages in > my logs: > > [pulseaudio] main.c: Hintergrunddienst konnte nicht initialisiert werden. > [pulseaudio] main.c: Start des Hintergrunddienstes fehlgeschlagen. > > A rough english translation would be: > > [pulseaudio] main.c: Background service could not be initialized > [pulseaudio] main.c: Start of the background service failed.
Looking up the po files in reverse, it is: Failed to initialize daemon. Daemon startup failed. > > All audio output so far seem to be fine, however, so this message is > harmless? Most software can handle a fallback to alsa. But the attached pactl information shows that the daemon is in fact not running. Could you please attach a verbose log? It is likely that some module is failing to load. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
