An error occurs in pulseaudio with “pid.c: Daemon already running.”

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Issue

  • An error occurs in pulseaudio with the following errors:
pulseaudio[13263]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
pulseaudio[13263]: pid.c: Daemon already running.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • pulseaudio

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