pulseaudio pa_pid_file_create() failed

Bug #174144 reported by Jaakan Shorter

This bug report was converted into a question: question #19424: pulseaudio pa_pid_file_create() failed.

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Bug Description

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Linux AMD64 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04A1

in syslog there is a flood of the follow right after I rebooted

Dec 5 07:49:40 AMD64 pulseaudio[9028]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 07:49:40 AMD64 pulseaudio[9028]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 07:54:55 AMD64 pulseaudio[9090]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 07:54:55 AMD64 pulseaudio[9090]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 07:54:55 AMD64 pulseaudio[9093]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 07:54:55 AMD64 pulseaudio[9093]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 07:54:57 AMD64 pulseaudio[9096]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 07:54:57 AMD64 pulseaudio[9096]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 07:54:57 AMD64 pulseaudio[9102]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 07:54:57 AMD64 pulseaudio[9102]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 07:54:58 AMD64 pulseaudio[9106]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 07:54:58 AMD64 pulseaudio[9106]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 07:54:59 AMD64 pulseaudio[9110]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 07:54:59 AMD64 pulseaudio[9110]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 07:56:02 AMD64 pulseaudio[9133]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 07:56:02 AMD64 pulseaudio[9133]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 07:56:02 AMD64 pulseaudio[9136]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 07:56:02 AMD64 pulseaudio[9136]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:21 AMD64 pulseaudio[9228]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:21 AMD64 pulseaudio[9228]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:26 AMD64 pulseaudio[9233]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:26 AMD64 pulseaudio[9233]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:26 AMD64 pulseaudio[9236]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:26 AMD64 pulseaudio[9236]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:26 AMD64 pulseaudio[9239]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:26 AMD64 pulseaudio[9239]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:32 AMD64 pulseaudio[9242]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:32 AMD64 pulseaudio[9242]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:37 AMD64 pulseaudio[9245]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:37 AMD64 pulseaudio[9245]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:41 AMD64 pulseaudio[9248]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:41 AMD64 pulseaudio[9248]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:44 AMD64 pulseaudio[9251]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:44 AMD64 pulseaudio[9251]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:44 AMD64 pulseaudio[9254]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:44 AMD64 pulseaudio[9254]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:44 AMD64 pulseaudio[9257]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:44 AMD64 pulseaudio[9257]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:44 AMD64 pulseaudio[9260]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:44 AMD64 pulseaudio[9260]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Dec 5 08:00:49 AMD64 pulseaudio[9263]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Dec 5 08:00:49 AMD64 pulseaudio[9263]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

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Jaakan Shorter (jaakanshorter) wrote :
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Jaakan Shorter (jaakanshorter) wrote :
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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Are you using the per-user session method (not a system-wide daemon)? Even upstream recommends not using PA in system-wide daemon mode unless you well understand the implications. Further, Ubuntu will not enable this latter method by default.

Changed in pulseaudio:
status: New → Incomplete
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Jaakan Shorter (jaakanshorter) wrote :

I don't even remember installing pulseaudio. I might have installed it via gstreamer but not directly

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

This bug report implies:

1) the user did not install PulseAudio manually;
2) PulseAudio was somehow configured as a system-wide daemon, which is not the default method and not recommended.

Because neither of these symptoms indicate "supported" and normally sourced methods of using PulseAudio in Ubuntu 8.04, I'm converting this bug report into a question.

Changed in pulseaudio:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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