Bug#854219: pulseaudio: Background service could not be initialized

[Felipe Sateler]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo
Control: severity -1 normal

On 5 February 2017 at 05:19, Helge Kreutzmann <debian at helgefjell.de> wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 10.0-1
> Severity: minor
>
> I never noticed pulseaudio explicitly on my system, especially I did
> not configure anything.
>
> Since updating to 10.0-1 I see the following (new) error messages in
> my logs:
>
>  [pulseaudio] main.c: Hintergrunddienst konnte nicht initialisiert werden.
>  [pulseaudio] main.c: Start des Hintergrunddienstes fehlgeschlagen.
>
> A rough english translation would be:
>
>  [pulseaudio] main.c: Background service could not be initialized
>  [pulseaudio] main.c: Start of the background service failed.

Looking up the po files in reverse, it is:

Failed to initialize daemon.
Daemon startup failed.

>
> All audio output so far seem to be fine, however, so this message is
> harmless?

Most software can handle a fallback to alsa. But the attached pactl
information shows that the daemon is in fact not running. Could you
please attach a verbose log? It is likely that some module is failing to load.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler