[Nix-dev] PulseAudio

[David Izquierdo]

I don't know how to see that process' logs. Maybe some magic journalctl 
option. Is it possible that it's starting as a systemd user service? 
Then `journalctl --user -eu pulseaudio` would work... But starting pulse 
like that doesn't seem to work for me.


On 09/05/17 21:13, Mark Gardner wrote:
> David,
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:59 PM, David Izquierdo <thecofee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you run `pulseaudio -k`, does it kill it?
>
> ​No:​
> $ pulseaudio -k
> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
>
> ​But the daemon is running as me:
> $ ps aux | grep pulseaudio
> ​user
>         2572  0.0  0.0 490632 10540 ?        Sl   14:55   0:00 /nix/store/
> a72z0gasiv1145ygyijzgdra921pkk60-pulseaudio-10.0/bin/pulseaudio --start
> --log-target=syslog
> ​user
>         2604  0.0  0.0 118264  5756 ?        S    14:55   0:00 /nix/store/
> a72z0gasiv1145ygyijzgdra921pkk60-pulseaudio-10.0/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
> ​
>
>> Once dead, what does it log if you run `pulseaudio` and then try to use
>> pavucontrol or other program?
>
> ​I killed it by hand:
> ​$ sudo kill 2572 2604
> $ mpv foobar.mp3  # plays
> $ pavucontrol  # Works!
>
> Going to try a reboot to see if it still works... Back to the previous
> behavior until I kill them then start up something that uses pulseaudio.
>
> Making progress. Thanks David.
> ​
> Mark