[Nix-dev] Pulseaudio broken in 14.12: Daemon already running

[Peter Jones]

Peter Jones <mlists at pmade.com> writes:
> 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.

I just noticed that pulseaudio doesn't see my sound cards:

  $ pacmd list-cards
  0 card(s) available.

But aplay does:

  $ aplay -L
  null
      Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
  default
      Default Audio Device (via PulseAudio)
  hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
      HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 0
      HDMI Audio Output
  hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=1
      HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 1
      HDMI Audio Output
  hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=2
      HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 2
      HDMI Audio Output
  sysdefault:CARD=PCH
      HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
      Default Audio Device
  front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
      HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
      Front speakers
  surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
      HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
      2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
  surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
      HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
      4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
  surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
      HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
      4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
  surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
      HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
      5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
  surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
      HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
      5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
  surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
      HDA Intel PCH, CX20756 Analog
      7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
  

Could this be part of the problem?

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