Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check kernel version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :) -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management Dept. > On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael wrote: > > I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen > wrote: > They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as part of the filename. > > -Eric > From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items dept. > >> On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael > wrote: >> >> what are they called. What do they look like? >> >> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen > wrote: >> 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 > 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~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss