systemd tries to start pulseaudio several times

[Laurent Bonnaud]

Here is what I see in journalctl:

# journalctl | grep pulseaudio

Apr 21 22:01:16 xeelee pulseaudio[2330]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Apr 21 22:01:33 xeelee pulseaudio[2911]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.

Sound is working, though.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:6.0-0ubuntu6
Uname: Linux 4.0.0-040000-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: bonnaudl 2895 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Apr 22 14:46:51 2015
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-20 (1 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 03/25/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P1.50
dmi.board.name: HM77-HT
dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.50:bd03/25/2013:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnHM77-HT:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

can you provide pulseaudio verbose log or system journal log to prove your claim "systemd tries to start pulseaudio several times" ?

[dino99 (9d9)]

Also get the same 'daemon already running' error on Wily with systemd 220-7
Can say if that 'error' should be downgraded to a 'warning' or simply silenced as it seems having no sad effects except spamming and dupe processes loaded.

 journalctl _COMM=pulseaudio

 pulseaudio[1258]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already runnin
 pulseaudio[1822]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already runnin

systemctl status -l pulseaudio.service
● pulseaudio.service - LSB: Start the PulseAudio sound server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pulseaudio)
   Active: active (exited) since sam. 2015-06-20 11:13:45 CEST; 1h 01min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1017 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pulseaudio start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

juin 20 11:13:45 u32 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start the PulseAudio sound server...
juin 20 11:13:45 u32 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start the PulseAudio sound server.

****** so wonder if /etc/init.d/ & systemd both deal with pulseaudio load ? ***************

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PulseAudio

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

Default sink name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo
Default source name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo.monitor

it is strange yhat your hdmi SONY TV XV is available, line out and headphone are unplugged but iec958 spdif is your default sink

 active profile: <output:iec958-stereo>
 sinks:
  alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo/#0: Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)
 sources:
  alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo.monitor/#0: Monitor of Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)
 ports:
  analog-input-front-mic: Front Microphone (priority 8500, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
   properties:
    device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
  analog-input-rear-mic: Rear Microphone (priority 8200, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
   properties:
    device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
  analog-input-linein: Line In (priority 8100, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
   properties:

  analog-output-lineout: Line Out (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
   properties:

  analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9000, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
   properties:
    device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
  iec958-stereo-output: Digital Output (S/PDIF) (priority 0, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
   properties:

  hdmi-output-0: HDMI / DisplayPort (priority 5900, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
   properties:
    device.icon_name = "video-display"
  hdmi-output-1: HDMI / DisplayPort 2 (priority 5800, latency offset 0 usec, available: yes)
   properties:
    device.icon_name = "video-display"
    device.product.name = "SONY TV XV"

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

On sam., 2015-06-20 at 16:08 +0000, Raymond wrote:

> it is strange yhat your hdmi SONY TV XV is available, line out and
> headphone are unplugged but iec958 spdif is your default sink

It is a config I made and that allows me to listen to music even when
the TV is switched off.

--
Laurent.

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

This bug still exists in Ubuntu 15.10 and this package version:

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 1:6.0-0ubuntu12

$ journalctl | grep pulseaudio
oct. 02 11:05:12 vougeot pulseaudio[2182]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
[...]
oct. 02 11:05:26 vougeot pulseaudio[2954]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PulseAudio

[Katsiaris Simos (spider623)]

i can confirm that also exist in xenial but sound seems to work

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Luke, could you have a look to this one?

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

This bug is still present in yakkety:

Oct 02 08:47:13 xeelee pulseaudio[24379]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Oct 02 08:47:13 xeelee pulseaudio[24382]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

This problem is not longer present in zesty. Thanks!