no sinks present in server

[tim]

Hi all, I am getting this error (1) when I startup pulseaudio, and it's not working at all. When I try to play sound with Audacious via pulseaudio output plugin, it says it couldn't open audio because I've selected the wrong output plugin, have another program blocking my sound card or I have no card at all. Here is the startup message with verbose output (1):

bo:ryo# pulseaudio --log-level=debug
main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified).
module.c: Loaded "module-esound-protocol-unix" (index: #0; argument: "").
protocol-native.c: loading cookie from disk.
module.c: Loaded "module-native-protocol-unix" (index: #1; argument: "").
module-volume-restore.c: starting with empty ruleset.
module.c: Loaded "module-volume-restore" (index: #2; argument: "").
module.c: Loaded "module-rescue-streams" (index: #3; argument: "").
sound-file.c: Failed to open file /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav
module.c: Loaded "module-x11-bell" (index: #4; argument: "sample=x11-bell").
module-x11-publish.c: using already loaded auth cookie.
module.c: Loaded "module-x11-publish" (index: #5; argument: "").
module-gconf.c: Unable to read or parse data from client.
module.c: Failed to load  module "module-gconf" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
main.c: Failed to load sound file.
main.c: Module load failed.
main.c: Daemon startup complete. 

btw: when I select the alsa output plugin it is still playing music though the daemon is running, and there is no output on the daemon.. (dunno if this is 'alright'..)

Greetings

[ossman]

The gconf message is a red herring as it doesn't prevent startup (as you can see with "main.c: Daemon startup complete.".

From that startup it doesn't look like you loaded any sinks though. Are you using the default configuration?

[lennart]

The logs clearly state that you haven't loaded any driver modules. (i.e. module-oss or module-alsa-sink)

Please load one of these modules (or module-hal-detect which will do this automatically for you) and things should start to work for you. If not, feel free to reopen this bug report.