Bug 230206

Summary:	Pulseaudio default configuration refuses to run
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component:	pulseaudio	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	pierre-bugzilla
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Description Bastien Nocera 2007-02-27 14:44:04 UTC

From a stock rawhide installation, try to run pulse-audio:
Feb 27 14:16:25 randel pulseaudio[3753]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
Feb 27 14:16:25 randel pulseaudio[3747]: module.c: Failed to open module
"module-x11-bell": module-x11-bell.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
Feb 27 14:16:25 randel pulseaudio[3747]: module.c: Failed to open module
"module-x11-publish": module-x11-publish.so: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory
Feb 27 14:16:25 randel pulseaudio[3747]: module.c: Failed to open module
"module-gconf": module-gconf.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Feb 27 14:16:25 randel pulseaudio[3747]: main.c: Module load failed.


The modules should be required either as dependencies, or builtin:
pulseaudio-module-gconf (for module-gconf)
pulseaudio-module-x11 (for module-x11-bell)
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf (for module-x11-publish)

Comment 1 Pierre Ossman 2007-03-02 09:55:20 UTC

Those modules are in a "nofail" section of the default configuration, so they do
not prevent startup.

Startup might be a bit noisy with those things missing, but it allows us to have
a configuration where the user just has to install the extra packages to get the
extra functionality.

The reason they're separate packages is that pulse isn't just used for the
desktop so we do not want to pull in everything but the kitchen sink.

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2007-03-02 09:58:35 UTC

Maybe the error message could be a bit clearer that it's not fatal.

Comment 3 Pierre Ossman 2007-03-02 11:52:14 UTC

Indeed, but it is technically difficult as the code that prints the error has no
idea if it is fatal or not.

Comment 4 Lennart Poettering 2007-05-28 20:47:06 UTC

PulseAudio 0.9.6 adds a new .ifexists directive which we can use to load modules
only when they are actually installed.

Comment 5 Lennart Poettering 2007-09-07 10:20:41 UTC

The new default config file iin the package I commited to Rawhide today we use
.ifexists to not load modules which are not installed. Thus these warning
messages are no more.