Pulse Audio will not start

[wptophat]

Hi,

I am brand new to MX Linux, coming over from Manjaro. I am having ome trouble with Pulseaudio.

When I try to go to the mixer, I get the folllowing:

http://i.imgur.com/Hj2xxbs.png

When I try to run sudo start-pulseaudio-x11 I get:

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Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
wolf@wolf-mx:~

What is weird is that sound works. I can hear videos play. I just cannot access the pulseaudio mixer.

Please help.


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[Stevo]

Pulseaudio should not need sudo to restart, it runs as a userspace process now instead of as root.

[wptophat]

Yes I know. I tried it both without and with sudo. Does not work regardless.
I only tried sudo because it said connection refused

Also when I run

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pulseaudio --start

I get:

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

[wptophat]

I think I am getting closer to solving this, but not quite there yet.

Based on advice from another forum (Stack), I deleted the default.pa file and then tried to run

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pulseaudio

That resulted in this:

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E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied

le be set at?l

SO I am thinking it has something to do with permissions on my Home Drive, which is on a different drive and partition.

Can anyone tell me what the home partition permissions should be set at?

[wptophat]

MX Linux is NOT living up to the hype! I still cannot get Pulseaudio to start. And I WISH that was the only issue I was having!

Anyhoo...I will save that rant for another thread.

So I tried to chown the home directory for my user. Thist did not resolve. SO off I went back to the web for more possible soultions.

I found out that it has something to do with the fact that the Home directory is NTFS (I dual boot with Win 10, not by choice I assure you!).

I found this thread:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/92863/m ... 223#517223

But the solution did not work. WHen I entered: /usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/sdb2
I got

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bash: /usr/bin/udisks: No such file or directory

Udisks2 is installed and working. So I am thinking MX must place this file elsewhere?

I am getting frustrated and about to go back to Manjaro or maybe even Zorin. Everyone claims MX "Just works" ut this is not my experience!

[Stevo]

I don't know how well MX will "Just Work" when you try to use a pre-existing /home folder on a foreign file system. Maybe Adrian or another filesystem guru could weigh in here.

[wptophat]

Which is another pain point. I mean, I have used the exact same setup with Manjaro, Zorin, and mint with no issues.

THis machine actually tri-boots Manjaro, Zorin, MX, Windows ATM. And only MX has the issue.

[gosia]

Hello wptophat,

I found out that it has something to do with the fact that the Home directory is NTFS

a linux-home directory must have a linux file system, not NTFS.

many greetings, gosia

[wptophat]

Hello wptophat,

I found out that it has something to do with the fact that the Home directory is NTFS

a linux-home directory must have a linux file system, not NTFS.

many greetings, gosia

And yet Manjaro, Zorin, not Mint have this issue.

[gosia]

Hello wptophat,

And yet Manjaro, Zorin, not Mint have this issue.

Your home directory of Manjaro, Zorin and Mint is NTFS formatted?

many greetings gosia