On 05/09/2012 05:20 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 23:11 -0600, JD wrote:

$ pulseaudio --start
E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.

Try starting it with verbose on:

$ pulseaudio --start --log-level=10 

etc. and see if you get anything meaningful on the failure?

I read the man page and indeed it says
--log-level[=LEVEL]
              If an argument is passed, set the log level to the specified value, oth‐
              erwise increase the configured verbosity level by one. The log levels
              are numerical from 0 to 4, corresponding to error, warn, notice, info,
              debug. Default log level is notice, i.e. all log messages with lower log
              levels are printed: error, warn, notice.

$ pulseaudio --log-level=10 --start
E: cmdline.c: --log-level expects log level argument (either numeric in range 0..4 or one of debug, info, notice, warn, error).
E: main.c: Failed to parse command line.