pulseaudio daemon won't start on headless server install

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Published on 2012-04-09T18:32:53Z Indexed on 2012/06/09 22:47 UTC
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Can't get the pulseaudio daemon to start on Ubuntu 11.1. I followed the instructions on the PulseAudio headdless server installation post

but when I run:

$pulseaudio -D

I get:

E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

and in syslog:

pulseaudio[3042]: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11

Any suggestions? Thanks

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