Pulseaudio connection refused

[Maurice]

I have downloaded all the pulseaudio files but when I try to open Pulseaudio volume control it refuses to open with a 'Connection failed'.

pulseaudio -vv gives

[maurice@localhost ~]$ pulseaudio -vv
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: RealtimeKit worked.
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 2.0-1pclos2012
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: i586-mandriva-linux-gnu
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -O2  -pipe -Wformat -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -Wall -W -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux i686 3.2.18-pclos2.bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 24 04:44:50 CEST 2012
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 4 CPUs.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 82ab6c261883e9ffe2a80b674b7b435e.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 82ab6c261883e9ffe2a80b674b7b435e-1357410974.599754-1206247915.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /home/maureice/.pulse/82ab6c261883e9ffe2a80b674b7b435e-runtime.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/maureice/.pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-2.0/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Fresh high-resolution timers available! Bon appetit!
D: [pulseaudio] memblock.c: Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
I: [pulseaudio] cpu-x86.c: CPU flags: CMOV MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3
I: [pulseaudio] svolume_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized volume functions.
I: [pulseaudio] remap_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized remappers.
I: [pulseaudio] svolume_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized volume functions.
I: [pulseaudio] remap_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized remappers.
I: [pulseaudio] sconv_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized conversions.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup without any loaded modules, refusing to work.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon terminated.
[maurice@localhost ~]$

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Just17]

This might help

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105480.msg922606.html#msg922606

[Maurice]

This might help

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105480.msg922606.html#msg922606

Yes, it did indeed help.
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I finally noticed that a couple of files had been replaced and the replacements did not contain what I expected .......

The files were

/etc/pulse/default.pa
/etc/sysconfig/pulseaudio

There were backup files with .rpmnew  extensions and I used those to replace the two files I thought might be the problem.

default.pa is used to load the modules ......  and when this is empty/missing it seems that a response from some probing will indicate that no modules were loaded.

/etc/sysconfig/pulseaudio   has one active line here

PULSE_SERVER_TYPE=personal

In the problem install the file contained the following

PULSE_SERVER_TYPE=none

I changed both files and rebooted to a working PulseAudio.

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I changed the files as you did and that did the trick - and now I too have a working PulseAudio.

Many thanks for your help Just17.
What a great forum this truly is.

Maurice

[Just17]

Glad it solved the problem Maurice