On 2018-02-19, ch...@dunnz.org <ch...@dunnz.org> wrote: > I'm running a newly installed Debian Buster and can't get pulseaudio to run. > > It is set to start on login by user. > > pulseaudio -k yields > > Failed to kill daemon: No such file or directory > > then pulseaudio --start > > seems to be accepted without any message > > then ps aux | grep pulse yields > > ccc 2771 0.0 0.0 12892 996 pts/0 S+ 11:14 0:00 grep > --color=auto pulse > > I really don't know where to start looking for the problem. > > Any suggestions?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Daemon_startup_failed https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Outputs_by_PulseAudio_error_status_check_utilities > Chris Dunn -- New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and the perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu. --Joan Didion