pulseaudio fails to start. Checking journalctl, this information is logged: Jun 21 21:31:58 irrational pulseaudio[11903]: [pulseaudio] stdin-util.c: Unable to read or parse data from client. Jun 21 21:31:58 irrational pulseaudio[11903]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-gsettings" (argument: ""): initialization failed. Jun 21 21:31:58 irrational systemd-coredump[11911]: Process 11907 (gsettings-helpe) of user 1001 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 11907: #0 0x00007f12c525d9c5 _g_log_abort (libglib-2.0.so.0) #1 0x00007f12c525ea5d g_log_default_handler (libglib-2.0.so.0) #2 0x00007f12c525ec9f g_logv (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f12c525ee97 g_log (libglib-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007f12c58833c7 g_settings_set_property (libgio-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007f12c5536c69 g_object_new_internal (libgobject-2.0.so.0) #6 0x00007f12c5538750 g_object_new_valist (libgobject-2.0.so.0) #7 0x00007f12c5538a71 g_object_new (libgobject-2.0.so.0) #8 0x00005583bad7de6f main (gsettings-helper) #9 0x00007f12c4c4149b __libc_start_main (libc.so.6) #10 0x00005583bad7dfba _start (gsettings-helper) I'm using dev-libs/glib-2.54.3-r6 media-sound/pulseaudio-12.0-r1[-glib] works fine. # emerge --info Portage 2.3.40 (python 3.6.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/systemd, gcc-8.1.0, glibc-2.27-r4, 4.17.0-rc7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.17.0-rc7-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-6500_CPU_@_3.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.6 KiB Mem: 16019752 total, 2420804 free KiB Swap: 12337144 total, 12145656 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:00:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 25f3360326ccf98d6671592066b2cb721b895040 sh bash 4.4_p23 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.30 p3) 2.30.0 ccache version 3.3.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.4_p23::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r4::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.26.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.15::gentoo, 3.4.8-r1::gentoo, 3.6.5-r1::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 3.3.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.11.4::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.6::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.13::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.16.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.30-r3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 8.1.0-r3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.9.1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r5::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r3::gentoo 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Any chance this is some gcc-8 fallout?
Or maybe LTO ?
Looks like this happens because the pulseaudio ebuild does not compile the schema (it should probably be calling gnome2_schemas_update from the gnome2-utils eclass). I saw the same error, it went away after manually running "glib-compile-schemas --allow-any-name /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/" (which is what gnome2_schemas_update would run).
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=24dfe71df62d2c5ede295f0113ba7e3d46aea723 commit 24dfe71df62d2c5ede295f0113ba7e3d46aea723 Author: Craig Andrews <candrews@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-06-26 17:28:44 +0000 Commit: Craig Andrews <candrews@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-06-28 15:12:31 +0000 media-sound/pulseaudio: pkg_postinst/pkg_postrm gnome2_schemas_update Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/658710 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.40, Repoman-2.3.9 media-sound/pulseaudio/pulseaudio-12.0-r2.ebuild | 344 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 344 insertions(+)
