Lucid Pulseaudio Connection Refused

**skaramanger** · July 13th, 2010

Originally Posted by afrodeity

Hello Skaramanger,

While you were gone, I found a workaround, but not sure exactly why it is working and sound stability still not 100% because alsa wineserver

Sorry can't help with wineserver.

sound is still quitting a lot when I play wine games but at least I can listen to music, and all my audio players work.

I made an /etc/asound.conf file and put this in:

Code:

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

I have the same except I have commented mine out. Could that I have USB sound.

Here is the information you requested:

Code:

aptitude search pulseaudio | grep ^i
i   gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio        - GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio           
i   libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio      - Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and Pul
i   pulseaudio                      - PulseAudio sound server                   
i   pulseaudio-equalizer            - PulseAudio Equalizer - LADSPA plugin graph
i   pulseaudio-esound-compat        - PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer        
i   pulseaudio-module-bluetooth     - Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound serv
i   pulseaudio-module-gconf         - GConf module for PulseAudio sound server  
i   pulseaudio-module-x11           - X11 module for PulseAudio sound server    
i A pulseaudio-module-zeroconf      - Zeroconf module for PulseAudio sound serve
i   pulseaudio-utils                - Command line tools for the PulseAudio soun

I have exactly what you have installed except for the pulsasudio-equalizer - for LADSPA. You may want to try and adjust the equalizer. Otherwise I don't know if I can much help. Just post here if you find an answer.

Skaramanger

**anttir** · February 28th, 2012

Originally Posted by afrodeity

neither command works for me after last round of updates.

Code:

pulseaudio --start
E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.
afrodeity@afrodeity-desktop:~$ start-pulse-x11
start-pulse-x11: command not found

I had a problem like this.

mplayer *.mp3*
-- cut --
shm_open() failed: Permission denied
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse'
shm_open() failed: Permission denied
shm_open() failed: Permission denied
-- cut --

$ pulseaudio --start
E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.

$ pulseaudio
E: shm.c: shm_open() failed: Permission denied
W: core.c: failed to allocate shared memory pool. Falling back to a normal memory pool.
E: module-console-kit.c: GetSessionsForUnixUser() call failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-console-kit" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
E: main.c: Module load failed.
E: main.c: Failed to initialise daemon.
$

$ ls -al /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root scanner 47528 2011-07-22 20:05 /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
$ /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
bash: /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Permission denied
$ sudo chmod a+x /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
$ /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
dbus-daemon-activation-helper service.to.activate
$
$mplayer *.mp3*
Starting playback...
A: 224.8 (03:44.8) of 225.0 (03:45.0) 0.4%