** Summary changed: - pulseaudio, running as user lightdm, starts and crashes in a loop, endlessly + [trusty] pulseaudio, running as user lightdm, starts and crashes in a loop, endlessly
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1537202 Title: [trusty] pulseaudio, running as user lightdm, starts and crashes in a loop, endlessly Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: During the start-crash loop, syslog gets this block added about once per second: ------- Jan 22 14:47:14 vulcan rtkit-daemon[2274]: Successfully made thread 29983 of process 29983 (n/a) owned by '104' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 22 14:47:14 vulcan rtkit-daemon[2274]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 2 users. Jan 22 14:47:14 vulcan pulseaudio[29983]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory Jan 22 14:47:14 vulcan pulseaudio[29983]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory Jan 22 14:47:14 vulcan pulseaudio[29983]: [pulseaudio] x11wrap.c: XOpenDisplay() failed Jan 22 14:47:14 vulcan pulseaudio[29983]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-bell" (argument: "sample=x11-bell"): initialization failed. Jan 22 14:47:14 vulcan pulseaudio[29983]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed. Jan 22 14:47:14 vulcan pulseaudio[29983]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. Jan 22 14:47:14 vulcan pulseaudio[29980]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. -------- Editing /etc/pulse/default.pa and commenting out this line: load-module module-x11-bell sample=x11-bell ...then saving the file, counting to 2 and then uncommenting it again to back out the change, allows the process to stop bouncing. The final entry in syslog after the above steps looks like this: ----- Jan 22 14:47:16 vulcan pulseaudio[29986]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory Jan 22 14:47:16 vulcan pulseaudio[29986]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory Jan 22 14:47:16 vulcan pulseaudio[29986]: [pulseaudio] client-conf-x11.c: xcb_connection_has_error() returned true Jan 22 14:47:16 vulcan rtkit-daemon[2274]: Successfully made thread 29989 of process 29989 (n/a) owned by '104' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 22 14:47:16 vulcan rtkit-daemon[2274]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 2 users. Jan 22 14:47:16 vulcan pulseaudio[29989]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory Jan 22 14:47:16 vulcan pulseaudio[29989]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory Jan 22 14:47:16 vulcan pulseaudio[29989]: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-UV3detc9PI: Connection refused Jan 22 14:47:16 vulcan pulseaudio[29989]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-UV3detc9PI: Connection refused ----- Note: I checked on IRC with #pulseaudio and the users that assisted me there were of the opinion that this is a lightdm bug and not a pulseaudio bug. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-76.120-generic 3.13.11-ckt30 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-76-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: bgardner 20779 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/seq: timidity 2133 F.... timidity Date: Fri Jan 22 14:47:43 2016 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pulseaudio InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-26 (1366 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/false PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-07-22 (549 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 05/16/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 4.6.5 dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345 dmi.board.name: Gazelle Professional dmi.board.vendor: System76, Inc. dmi.board.version: gazp7 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 9 dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr4.6.5:bd05/16/2012:svnSystem76,Inc.:pnGazelleProfessional:pvrgazp7:rvnSystem76,Inc.:rnGazelleProfessional:rvrgazp7:cvnNoEnclosure:ct9:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: Gazelle Professional dmi.product.version: gazp7 dmi.sys.vendor: System76, Inc. modified.conffile..etc.pulse.default.pa: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.pulse.default.pa: 2016-01-22T14:47:18.861601 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1537202/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
