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Pulse Audio will not start
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 6:57 pm
by 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.
mod note: image changed to link, please be mindful of image sizes: viewtopic.php?f=133&t=48374
Re: Pulse Audio will not start
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 7:33 pm
by Stevo
Pulseaudio should not need sudo to restart, it runs as a userspace process now instead of as root.
Re: Pulse Audio will not start
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 12:09 pm
by 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
I get:
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$ pulseaudio --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
Re: Pulse Audio will not start
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:21 pm
by 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
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?
Re: Pulse Audio will not start
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:20 pm
by 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!
Re: Pulse Audio will not start
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:27 pm
by 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.
Re: Pulse Audio will not start
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:35 pm
by 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.
Re: Pulse Audio will not start
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:40 pm
by gosia
Hello wptophat,
wptophat wrote: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:20 pm
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
Re: Pulse Audio will not start
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:43 pm
by wptophat
gosia wrote: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:40 pm
Hello wptophat,
wptophat wrote: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:20 pm
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.
Re: Pulse Audio will not start
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 5:06 pm
by gosia
Hello wptophat,
wptophat wrote: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:43 pm
And yet Manjaro, Zorin, not Mint have this issue.
Your home directory of Manjaro, Zorin and Mint is NTFS formatted?
many greetings gosia
