Cannot run blender on Ubuntu Server 12.04LTS

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In short: I want to run blender python scripts on server computer which does not have physical sound card. Blender does not start with following error message:

AL lib: pulseaudio.c:612: Context did not connect: Access denied
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card ‘0’
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
AL lib: alsa.c:512: Could not open playback device ‘default’: No such file or directory
AL lib: oss.c:169: Could not open /dev/dsp: No such file or directory

I have already created the topic for this on SU:

How to solve this issue?

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Hii, you can try to start Blender from a terminal with the -noaudio switch.

Cheers, mib

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Seriously? I mean really? I spent maybe an hour googling about this issue and found no mention about --noaudio option :slight_smile:
Thank you for pointing out, I should give it a try!