What exactly do you mean by “disabling” pulseaudio? Do you have a system-wide instance of pulseaudio running (e.g. by setting `pulseAudio.systemWide = true` in the configuration.nix)? If yes, then do you have any good reasons for doing so? If no, then disable the system-wide instance.
Normally, there is exactly one instance of pulseaudio per user and it is spawned automatically (to be precise, it is spawned automatically iff it is not already running; and most likely your DE starts one during initialisation). If you really need system-wide pulseaudio for some reason, then you might want to go through [Running PulseAudio as System-Wide Daemon]( http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/) and let us know what was wrong. Actually I have no idea how well is this mode supported in NixOS and does anyone even test it… On Sat Jan 24 2015 at 5:36:45 AM Peter Jones <mli...@pmade.com> wrote: > Pulseaudio stopped working for me after upgrading to 14.12. It seems > that all PA clients start their own server, which eventually fails > because the pulseaudio daemon is already running. > > For example, if I kill pulseaudio and then start it by hand with -vvv, I > can see it start correctly and write its PID into a file. Then, if I > run anything that needs to access pulse, like speaker-test, alsamixer, > pavucontrol, etc., I can see in journalctl that another instance of > pulseaudio is started and then dies with the error "Daemon already > running". The client usually dies with "connection refused". > > I've turned off autospawning, and that doesn't change anything. > Disabling pulseaudio and rebooting gives me sound again. > > Any idea why each client is trying to start their own pulseaudio daemon? > > -- > Peter Jones, Founder, Devalot.com > Defending the honor of good code > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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