Re: pulseaudio breaking things again
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 20:10 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Script started on Mon 19 Nov 2012 08:06:14 PM EST
> > jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ ./ppr.sh
> > type shutdown to return to linux.
> > VLC media player 2.0.4 Twoflower (revision 2.0.3-289-g6e6100a)
> > [[32;1m0x1a95d18[0m] inhibit interface error: [31;1mFailed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11[0m
> > [[32;1m0x1a95d18[0m] main interface error: [31;1mno suitable interface module[0m
> > [[32;1m0x1a95d18[0m] main interface error: [31;1mno suitable interface module[0m
> > [[32;1m0x19cb108[0m] main libvlc error: [31;1minterface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed[0m
> > [[32;1m0x19cb108[0m] main libvlc: [0;1mRunning vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.[0m
> > [[32;1m0x1a95d18[0m] [cli] lua interface: [0;1mListening on host "*console".[0m
> > VLC media player 2.0.4 Twoflower
> > Command Line Interface initialized. Type `help' for help.
> > > [[32;1m0x1a2de78[0m] access_http access: [0;1mRaw-audio server found, mp3 demuxer selected[0m
> > ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
> > ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
> > ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> > ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
> > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> > ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
> > ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
> > ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> > [[32;1m0x1a46c08[0m] alsa audio output error: [31;1mcannot open ALSA device "default": No such file or directory[0m
> > [[32;1m0x1a46c08[0m] main audio output error: [31;1mAudio output failed[0m
> > [[32;1m0x1a46c08[0m] main audio output error: [31;1mThe audio device "default" could not be used:
> > No such file or directory.[0m
> > [[32;1m0x1a46c08[0m] oss audio output error: [31;1mcannot open audio device (/dev/dsp)[0m
> > [[32;1m0x1a46c08[0m] main audio output error: [31;1mno suitable audio output module[0m
> > [[32;1m0x1a51378[0m] main decoder error: [31;1mfailed to create audio output[0m
> > shutdown
> > Shutting down.
> > [[32;1m0x1a95d18[0m] [cli] lua interface: [0;1mRequested shutdown.[0m
> > Bye-bye!
> > > jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ exit
> > exit
> >
> > Script done on Mon 19 Nov 2012 08:06:45 PM EST
> > The script runs vlc with a specific url when it works.
> > Has anyone seen anything similar to this? I have pulseaudio on another
> > installation and while that other distribution has just had an update
> > pulseaudio only allows the alsa sound card to play for a short time then
> > crashes the connection.
>
> I can't see anything related to pulseaudio.
>
> However, I guess I know your other distro, IIRC you'
> re subscribed to another list, where I'm subscribed too. Yesterday there
> was a post to a link that was linked with:
>
> http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/
>
> Too funny they still don't understand that PA doesn't work with some
> cards, they still ignore that there are installs without dependencies to
> PA and they don't name a sound server that is better and allows to use
> several audio apps at the same time too. IOW they still spread lies.
>
> A RME HDSPe AIO doesn't work, with PA.
> A vanilla Ubuntu install doesn't need PA. PA only depends to a
> meta-package.
> Jackd is able to do the job, without making insane adjustments, as PA
> does (increasing one volume and decreasing another volume at the same
> time, an engineer doing this would lose his job).
>
> However, they claim that ...
>
> "If you need to stop the PulseAudio process completely, execute these
> commands:
>
> echo autospawn=no > ~/.pulse/client.conf
> pulseaudio -k
>
> If you need PulseAudio back again, remove ~/.pulse/client.conf, then try
> to start an application that uses PulseAudio, and it should start
> automatically."
>
> Did you test what happens if you stop PA and test your script after
> doing this?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
>
This gets weirder by the moment:
Script started on Tue 20 Nov 2012 05:36:12 AM EST
jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ echo autospawn=no > ~/.pulse/client.conf
jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ pulseaudio -k
The program 'pulseaudio' is currently not installed. To run 'pulseaudio' please ask your administrator to install the package 'pulseaudio'
pulseaudio: command not found
jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ ./treasure-trove.sh
VLC media player 2.0.4 Twoflower (revision 2.0.3-289-g6e6100a)
[[32;1m0x20e6d18[0m] inhibit interface error: [31;1mFailed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11[0m
[[32;1m0x20e6d18[0m] main interface error: [31;1mno suitable interface module[0m
[[32;1m0x20e6d18[0m] main interface error: [31;1mno suitable interface module[0m
[[32;1m0x201c108[0m] main libvlc error: [31;1minterface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed[0m
[[32;1m0x201c108[0m] main libvlc: [0;1mRunning vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.[0m
[[32;1m0x20e6d18[0m] [cli] lua interface: [0;1mListening on host "*console".[0m
VLC media player 2.0.4 Twoflower
Command Line Interface initialized. Type `help' for help.
> [[32;1m0x207f638[0m] access_http access: [0;1mRaw-audio server found, mp3 demuxer selected[0m
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
[[32;1m0x2081658[0m] alsa audio output error: [31;1mcannot open ALSA device "default": No such file or directory[0m
[[32;1m0x2081658[0m] main audio output error: [31;1mAudio output failed[0m
[[32;1m0x2081658[0m] main audio output error: [31;1mThe audio device "default" could not be used:
No such file or directory.[0m
[[32;1m0x2081658[0m] oss audio output error: [31;1mcannot open audio device (/dev/dsp)[0m
[[32;1m0x2081658[0m] main audio output error: [31;1mno suitable audio output module[0m
[[32;1m0x20a2ce8[0m] main decoder error: [31;1mfailed to create audio output[0m
qu shutdown
Shutting down.
[[32;1m0x20e6d18[0m] [cli] lua interface: [0;1mRequested shutdown.[0m
Bye-bye!
> jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ exit
exit
Script done on Tue 20 Nov 2012 05:37:00 AM EST
I don't use jackd since it's intended for professional musicians with high
end computer equipment and that leaves me out on at least two counts.
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