Audio Volume Settings - Pulseaudio - address already in use

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#1

Upon login Audio Volume Settings in the sysem tray won’t work, as there occurs an error:

karl@erlangen:~> journalctl -u session-15.scope
Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
      Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
      turn off this notice.
-- Logs begin at Tue 2017-09-19 20:16:54 CEST, end at Mon 2017-09-25 07:45:37 CEST. --
Sep 25 07:35:36 erlangen sddm-helper[27434]: Adding cookie to "/home/karl/.Xauthority"
Sep 25 07:35:37 erlangen pulseaudio[27572]: [pulseaudio] socket-server.c: bind(): Die Adresse wird bereits verwendet
Sep 25 07:35:37 erlangen pulseaudio[27572]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Sep 25 07:35:37 erlangen pulseaudio[27572]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
Sep 25 07:35:37 erlangen pulseaudio[27572]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Hintergrunddienst konnte nicht initialisiert werden.
Sep 25 07:35:37 erlangen pulseaudio[27567]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Start des Hintergrunddienstes fehlgeschlagen.
Sep 25 07:35:38 erlangen pulseaudio[28167]: [pulseaudio] socket-server.c: bind(): Die Adresse wird bereits verwendet
Sep 25 07:35:38 erlangen pulseaudio[28167]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Sep 25 07:35:38 erlangen pulseaudio[28167]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
Sep 25 07:35:38 erlangen pulseaudio[28167]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Hintergrunddienst konnte nicht initialisiert werden.
Sep 25 07:35:39 erlangen pulseaudio[28254]: [pulseaudio] socket-server.c: bind(): Die Adresse wird bereits verwendet
Sep 25 07:35:39 erlangen pulseaudio[28254]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Sep 25 07:35:39 erlangen pulseaudio[28254]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
Sep 25 07:35:39 erlangen pulseaudio[28254]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Hintergrunddienst konnte nicht initialisiert werden.
Sep 25 07:35:39 erlangen pulseaudio[28243]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Start des Hintergrunddienstes fehlgeschlagen.
Sep 25 07:38:17 erlangen pulseaudio[28400]: [pulseaudio] socket-server.c: bind(): Die Adresse wird bereits verwendet
Sep 25 07:38:17 erlangen pulseaudio[28400]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Sep 25 07:38:17 erlangen pulseaudio[28400]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
Sep 25 07:38:17 erlangen pulseaudio[28400]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Hintergrunddienst konnte nicht initialisiert werden.
Sep 25 07:38:17 erlangen pulseaudio[28397]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Start des Hintergrunddienstes fehlgeschlagen.
Sep 25 07:38:27 erlangen pulseaudio[28423]: [pulseaudio] socket-server.c: bind(): Die Adresse wird bereits verwendet
Sep 25 07:38:27 erlangen pulseaudio[28423]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Sep 25 07:38:27 erlangen pulseaudio[28423]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
Sep 25 07:38:27 erlangen pulseaudio[28423]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Hintergrunddienst konnte nicht initialisiert werden.
Sep 25 07:38:27 erlangen pulseaudio[28420]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Start des Hintergrunddienstes fehlgeschlagen.
Sep 25 07:40:42 erlangen su[28566]: (to root) karl on pts/0
Sep 25 07:40:42 erlangen su[28566]: pam_systemd(su-l:session): Cannot create session: Already running in a session
Sep 25 07:40:42 erlangen su[28566]: pam_unix(su-l:session): session opened for user root by karl(uid=1000)
Sep 25 07:42:14 erlangen pulseaudio[28880]: [pulseaudio] backend-ofono.c: Failed to register as a handsfree audio agent with ofono: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: Th
Sep 25 07:45:37 erlangen pulseaudio[28965]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
karl@erlangen:~>

I fixed that by deleting: rm -r /tmp/.esd-1000 and starting: /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog. Of course I would have the problem never occurring. Any idea?

#2

I’m not a sound guru, but more background information would be useful. Did this just start happening (eg after an upgrade)? Happens after every boot?

I did read a similar strange issue reported where it was found that ~/.esd-auth ownership was found to be an underlying problem, so perhaps check

ls -l ~/.esd_auth

You could troubleshoot as per the wiki.ubuntu wiki page perhaps… restart PA and log verbosely with…

pulseaudio -k;pulseaudio -vvvv --log-time=1 > ~/pulseverbose.log 2>&1
#3 
karl@erlangen:~> ls -l ~/.esd_auth
-rw------- 1 karl users 16 16. Aug 2016  /home/karl/.esd_auth
karl@erlangen:~>

You could troubleshoot as per the wiki.ubuntu wiki page perhaps… restart PA and log verbosely with…

pulseaudio -k;pulseaudio -vvvv --log-time=1 > ~/pulseverbose.log 2>&1

Got a nice log: http://mistelberger.net/pulseverbose.log But I am still clueless.

karl@erlangen:~> ll /tmp/.esd-1000/socket 
srwxrwxrwx 1 karl users 0 25. Sep 12:49 /tmp/.esd-1000/socket
karl@erlangen:~>

Removed the above and started pulseaudio successfully.

#4

Got a nice log: http://mistelberger.net/pulseverbose.log But I am still clueless.

The only real issue I observed from the log is what you had captured/reported in your opening post…

(   0.577|   0.000) E: [pulseaudio] socket-server.c: bind(): Die Adresse wird bereits verwendet
(0.577|   0.000) E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
(   0.577|   0.000) E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.

It could be useful if a bug report is needed.

karl@erlangen:~> ll /tmp/.esd-1000/socket 
srwxrwxrwx 1 karl users 0 25. Sep 12:49 /tmp/.esd-1000/socket
karl@erlangen:~>

Removed the above and started pulseaudio successfully.

Let’s see if that was enough.

#5

I never observed the above behavior of pulseaudio until recently. There is a trivial cause for that: Being familiar with the command line since 1976 (on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2100#21MX_.281975-1979.29) I only recently became more fluent with GUIs. And that caused the problem. When leaving a GUI session the display switched rapidly to the next one and there I clicked change user without the previous session being actually terminated. Now I know that I have to be more patient. That’s it.:wink: