On 11/13/11 at 06:59am, Carlo Borelli wrote: > Hello guys, latest updates on pulseaudio made me useless my headless sound > server based on pulseaudio. > This the message the server give me: > > dbradders@Casa:~$ pulseaudio -D > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. > dbradders@Casa:~$ > > /var/log/syslog: > Nov 13 06:55:26 Casa pulseaudio[12450]: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: > Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to > autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11 > > so, now appear like we must use an xorg session to use it... > Any clues? >
dbus-daemon is contained in the dbus package, and pulseaudio depends on dbus (through consolekit). My solution was to create a dummy package for both dbus and consolekit. I have lots of dummy packages for commonly-required but useless packages such as gconf, console/policykit, hal, dbus, etc. Careful consideration of the package in question and what it provides will help you avoid any troubles. I can report I've had no issues, but pulseaudio has to be configured not to try to load nonexistent modules (in default.pa, probably). DBUS in this case is being used to help consolekit determine when users go idle or log out. -- Liam
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
