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Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not)

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On 2017-07-09, Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> wrote:
> At some point in the past I was having sound issues which I traced to 
> pulseaudio.  I uninstalled pulseaudio and everything was fine.  Then 
> Firefox decided to require pulseaudio and my sound (in Firefox) went away.
>
> I reinstalled pulseaudio and eventually got it working (I thought).  
> Well, it was working for me, but not for my wife and daughter, 
> apparently.  Both of them have recently let me know that they have been 
> without sound for an indeterminate period of time.
>
> This morning, I went to my wife's login and ran:
>
> pulseaudio --kill
>
> rm ~/.config/pulse
>
> pulseaudio --start
>
> And that worked.  There were some warnings about not being able to find 
> the cookie file, which was understandable since I had just rm'd the 
> configuration directory.  But pulseaudio recreated the directory and 
> needed files and seems to be happy.  At least I am able to get sound 
> from the command line, as well as from Firefox.
>
>
> When I tried to do the same thing under my daughter's login, however, I 
> get the warnings about the cookie file and ~/.config/pulse is NOT 
> recreated, so still no sound anywhere.  I have checked the permissions 
> of my daughter's  ~/.config/pulse directory and it is 644 with her user 
> as owner and group.  That matches ~/.config in my home directory and my 
> wife's.
>

The wiki suggests (for missing playback devices):

$ rm -r ~/.config/pulse /tmp/pulse-*
$ pulseaudio --kill
$ pulseaudio --start

https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio

I suppose you've verified in a mixer program and/or pavucontrol that all
is as should be.

> So why does pulseaudio not create the files it needs, like it did for me 
> and my wife?  Is there something else that I am missing? Any help will 
> be appreciated.

I don't have a ~/.config/pulse/ directory myself; I suppose in my case
pulse gets its config from /etc/pulse.

BTW, as it would appear that ~/.config/pulse/ is a directory and
not a file (unless I'm wrong in which case I'm wrong) I don't see how your
'rm ~/.config/pulse' command worked. But I guess I'm wrong because
certainly you would have noticed "rm: cannot remove 'pulse/': Is a
directory".

Or maybe during the redaction of your post you left out the '-r' flag by
inadvertence.

> Marc
>
>


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PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-07-09 08:40 +0200
  Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Wellington Terumi Uemura <wellingtonuemura@gmail.com> - 2017-07-09 15:00 +0200
    Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-07-13 23:00 +0200
      Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Wellington Terumi Uemura <wellingtonuemura@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 13:00 +0200
  Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Wilko Fokken <wfokken@web.de> - 2017-07-09 21:00 +0200
  Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-14 11:20 +0200
    Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-07-17 00:20 +0200
      Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-17 15:00 +0200
      Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-18 09:30 +0200
    Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-18 10:10 +0200
  Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-07-17 10:10 +0200
    Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not) Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-07-17 23:00 +0200

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