Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your /var somewhere.

-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support issues dept.


> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when 
> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what transpired:
> 
> bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio
> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
> bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse
>  2723 ?        00:00:08 pulseaudio
> bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723
> bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio
> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
> bmike1@MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse
>  7063 ?        00:00:03 pulseaudio
> 
> Would someone help me fix this?
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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