Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp

[Pinejoker]

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Nov 20 05:04:34 family-desktop bonobo-activation-server (family-15940): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-PyYDAocHXW: Connection refused
Nov 20 05:06:26 family-desktop pulseaudio[5234]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Nov 20 05:06:26 family-desktop pulseaudio[5236]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Nov 20 05:06:26 family-desktop pulseaudio[5236]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Nov 20 05:06:40 family-desktop pulseaudio[5236]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.
Nov 20 05:06:40 family-desktop pulseaudio[5236]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Nov 20 05:44:47 family-desktop bonobo-activation-server (family-6719): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-1Di4nMo27M: Connection refused
Nov 20 05:45:53 family-desktop pulseaudio[5220]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Nov 20 05:45:53 family-desktop pulseaudio[5222]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Nov 20 05:45:53 family-desktop pulseaudio[5222]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Nov 20 05:46:07 family-desktop pulseaudio[5222]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.
Nov 20 05:46:07 family-desktop pulseaudio[5222]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.

how to fix this error..

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom reproducible across fresh reboots?

[aBitLater (abitlater-gmail)]

I have the same problem across fresh reboots, and my system is freshly installed and updated.

user.log
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Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5842]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
Feb 3 14:49:32 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.
Feb 3 14:49:32 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.

uname -r
------------
2.6.27-11-generic

syslog
--------
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5842]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
Feb 3 14:49:21 myubu x-session-manager[5758]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'gnome-wm' of required component 'windowmanager'
Feb 3 14:49:32 myubu x-session-manager[5758]: WARNING: Application 'libcanberra-login-sound.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Feb 3 14:49:32 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.
Feb 3 14:49:32 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.

messages
------------
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5842]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
Feb 3 14:49:19 myubu pulseaudio[5844]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.

daemon.log
---------
Feb 3 14:49:21 myubu x-session-manager[5758]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'gnome-wm' of required component 'windowmanager'
Feb 3 14:49:32 myubu x-session-manager[5758]: WARNING: Application 'libcanberra-login-sound.desktop' failed to register before timeout

auth.log
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Feb 3 14:49:17 myubu gdm[5402]: gnome-keyring-daemon: couldn't lookup keyring component setting: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Deta...

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

The pulse audio errors in the log are discussed here:
bug #3286430

[aBitLater (abitlater-gmail)]

that link is broken / bad bug number

[damonrand (damon-cybermagic)]

Just done a fresh install of 8.10 desktop. Getting this repeatable error as well.

damon@loki:~$ cat /var/log/syslog | grep pulseaudio
Feb 24 08:38:02 loki pulseaudio[5449]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Feb 24 08:38:02 loki pulseaudio[5451]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Feb 24 08:38:02 loki pulseaudio[5451]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Feb 24 08:38:26 loki pulseaudio[5451]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.
Feb 24 08:38:26 loki pulseaudio[5451]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.

damon@loki:~$ pulseaudio --check
W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.

Sound seems to work though..

damon@loki:~$ ps -elf | grep pulse
1 S damon 5447 1 0 80 0 - 781 select 08:38 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/pulse-session /usr/bin/seahorse-agent --execute x-session-manager
1 S damon 5451 1 0 80 0 - 7748 poll 08:38 ? 00:00:28 /usr/bin/pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog
0 S damon 5454 5451 0 80 0 - 1882 poll 08:38 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
0 S damon 11405 5766 0 80 0 - 810 pipe_w 09:38 pts/0 00:00:00 grep pulse

damon@loki:~$ uname -r
2.6.27-11-generic

Damon.

[Cyril Jaquier (cyril-jaquier)]

Same issue here with Jaunty since quite a while now. I had once a really nice volume applet (not the Gnome one but similar to pavucontrol) and I guess it was from module-x11-xsmp (but I may be wrong). However, this module tries to start in the session (see /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-module-xsmp.desktop) so it should either load correctly or be removed. I attached a strace output which may contain some information.

[dino99 (9d9)]

same think here too

[dino99 (9d9)]

AplayDevices:
 **** Liste des PLAYBACK périphériques ****
 carte 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], périphérique 0 : Intel ICH [SiS SI7012]
   Sous-périphériques: 1/1
   Sous-périphérique: #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: oem 3772 F.... mixer_applet2
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SI7012'/'SiS SI7012 with ALC200,200P at irq 5'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC200,200P rev 0'
   Components : 'AC97a:414c4710'
   Controls : 37
   Simple ctrls : 23
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom clamav crontab dialout dip floppy fuse gdm lpadmin netdev plugdev polkituser postfix powerdev pulse-rt root saned scanner users video
mtime.conffile..etc.init.d.pulseaudio: 2009-07-17T10:51:37

[THCJB (thcjb)]

Same problem. From my user.log:
Nov 14 08:20:05 pulseaudio[2305]: core-util.c: Home directory /etc/timidity not ours.
Nov 14 08:20:05 pulseaudio[2305]: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock.
Nov 14 08:20:05 pulseaudio[2305]: main.c: Failed to acquire autospawn lock
Nov 14 08:20:38 pulseaudio[2437]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.
Nov 14 08:20:38 pulseaudio[2437]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.

[Majestyx (majestyx)]

hello,

i am work whit karmic. i have open: thunderbird3, firefox3.6, pidgin, skype and the rythmbox. i edit a address in addressbook from tb3 and the hole X-Server crashes. no apport msg. i only see in the logfiles (syslog):

Feb 15 13:58:41 ububox pulseaudio[27519]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Feb 15 13:58:42 ububox pulseaudio[27519]: main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-DB3BxZEILg: Connection refused
Feb 15 13:58:55 ububox pulseaudio[27668]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Feb 15 13:59:00 ububox pulseaudio[27519]: module-x11-xsmp.c: Failed to open connection to session manager: Could not open network socket
Feb 15 13:59:00 ububox pulseaudio[27519]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Feb 15 14:00:23 ububox pulseaudio[27519]: ratelimit.c: 105 events suppressed

wow, pulsaudio burn down the hole desktop?!

ps: i use(and like) compiz

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

This seems like a gnome-session race. Please reproduce this symptom using the most current daily-live desktop Lucid image.

[dino99 (9d9)]

I've found that lot of lines are commented into :

- /etc/pulse/client.conf
- /etc/pulse/default.pa

maybe some others config files hidden somewhere too.

i've run several times "dpkg-reconfigure pulseaudio" but that command seems to forget a lot about settings.

Still searcha working script to bring back pulseaudio to " default " settings

[Miguel Branco (mpbbranco)]

With latest Lucid beta 1, message appears.

Apparently, module is loaded despite warning on failure to "open connection to session manager", as I receive a message that it cannot be loaded twice after pactl load-module.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

What is the output from "pactl list|grep module-x11-xsmp" after a fresh login?

[Miguel Branco (mpbbranco)]

✠pactl list | grep module-x11-xsmp
 Name: module-x11-xsmp
 Driver: module-x11-xsmp.c

Syslog file:

Apr 5 14:22:23 localhost pulseaudio[16031]: module-x11-xsmp.c: Failed to open connection to session manager: Could not open network socket
Apr 5 14:22:23 localhost pulseaudio[16031]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Looks like the session manager munged the connection. In any case, there doesn't seem to be a pressing need to quell this message.

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

This bug still exists in Ubuntu 15.04:

# journalctl | grep pulseaudio
[...]
Apr 21 22:01:34 xeelee pulseaudio[2895]: [pulseaudio] module-x11-xsmp.c: module-x11-xsmp may not be loaded twice.
Apr 21 22:01:34 xeelee pulseaudio[2895]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.