Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth 2.1.1 not creating a server

[Knute Snortum]

Thanks, Ceresa, I read that whole thread but it doesn't seem to apply
to my situation.

I am on Ubuntu 20.04, using systemd now to try to start FluidSynth.  I
learned that PulseAudio won't start as root, so I added my service to
~/.config/systemd/user.  It looks like this:

[Unit]
Description=FluidSynth launched in server mode
After=sound.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/fluidsynth -a pulseaudio -m alsa_seq -i -l -s -p
FluidSynth /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

But when I do a systemctl status fluidsynth, I see this:

fluidsynth.service - FluidSynth
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fluidsynth.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2020-08-06 08:47:37
PDT; 5h 6min ago
    Process: 838 ExecStart=/usr/bin/fluidsynth -a pulseaudio -m
alsa_seq /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 (code=exited,
status=255/EXCEPTION)
   Main PID: 838 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)

Aug 06 08:47:36 knute-NUC7PJYH systemd[1]: Started FluidSynth.
Aug 06 08:47:37 knute-NUC7PJYH fluidsynth[838]: fluidsynth: error:
Failed to create PulseAudio connection
Aug 06 08:47:37 knute-NUC7PJYH fluidsynth[838]: Failed to create the
audio driver
Aug 06 08:47:37 knute-NUC7PJYH fluidsynth[838]: FluidSynth runtime version 2.1.1
Aug 06 08:47:37 knute-NUC7PJYH fluidsynth[838]: Copyright (C)
2000-2020 Peter Hanappe and others.
Aug 06 08:47:37 knute-NUC7PJYH fluidsynth[838]: Distributed under the
LGPL license.
Aug 06 08:47:37 knute-NUC7PJYH fluidsynth[838]: SoundFont(R) is a
registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc.
Aug 06 08:47:37 knute-NUC7PJYH systemd[1]: fluidsynth.service: Main
process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Aug 06 08:47:37 knute-NUC7PJYH systemd[1]: fluidsynth.service: Failed
with result 'exit-code'.

Any ideas why the PulseAudio connection fails?

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Knute Snortum
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Knute Snortum
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On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:41 PM Ceresa Jean-Jacques
<jean-jacques.ceresa@orange.fr> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> >How would you start FluidSynth at startup automatically? -
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> Here possible solution.
>
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2020-01/msg00032.html
>
> jjc
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