Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.5-7 Severity: normal
When enabling pulseaudio as a system-wide instance in /etc/default/pulseaudio, it does not start automatically on system startup (i guess) because hal has not yet been loaded; pulseaudio's module-hal-detect module fails to load and so does the daemon. Once hal is loaded, /etc/init.d/pulseaudio (re)start works OK. This also happened to me on version 0.9.6-1. Here's what it says on the syslog: Jun 8 06:43:09 pavilion pulseaudio[3500]: module-hal-detect.c: Couldn't connect to hald: (null): (null) Jun 8 06:43:09 pavilion pulseaudio[3500]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-hal-detect" (argument: ""): initialization failed. Jun 8 06:43:09 pavilion pulseaudio[3500]: main.c: Module load failed. Jun 8 06:43:09 pavilion pulseaudio[3500]: main.c: failed to initialize daemon. Jun 8 06:43:09 pavilion pulseaudio[3499]: main.c: daemon startup failed. Cheers, Mauro. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii libasound2 1.0.13-2 ALSA library ii libasyncns0 0.3-1 Asyncronous name service query lib ii libc6 2.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libltdl3 1.5.22-4 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii liboil0.3 0.3.10-1.1 Library of Optimized Inner Loops ii libsamplerate0 0.1.2-5 audio rate conversion library ii libsndfile1 1.0.17-1 Library for reading/writing audio ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-13 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends: ii libasound2-plugins 1.0.13-3 ALSA library additional plugins ii pulseaudio-module-hal 0.9.5-7 HAL device detection module for Pu pn pulseaudio-module-x11 <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
