<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as part of the filename.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Eric</div><div class="">From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items dept.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" class="">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""> what are they called. What do they look like?</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com" class="">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your /var somewhere.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Eric</div><div class="">From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support issues dept.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-8971322171441868286Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when <br clear="all" class=""><div class="">i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what transpired:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio<br class="">E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.<br class="">E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.<br class=""><div class="">bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse<br class=""> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio<br class="">bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723<br class="">bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio<br class="">E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.<br class="">E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.<br class="">bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse<br class=""> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would someone help me fix this?</div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="m_-8971322171441868286gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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