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

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On 07/14/2017 02:09 AM, Curt wrote:
> 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
I have not done 'rm -r  /tmp/pluse*' (the only such directory is empty), 
but I have done the rest under each of the three logins in the 
appropriate /home/ directories for each login.  My wife and I each get 
sound, but my daughter still gets silence.
> https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio
>
> I suppose you've verified in a mixer program and/or pavucontrol that all
> is as should be.
Yes, I've checked both alsamixer and pavucontrol.  Everything looks the 
same under all three logins.
>
>> 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.
Correct.  The -r should have been included.

BTW, I solved the problem of the directory and files not being 
recreated.  My daughter had a .pulse sub-directory in her /home/ 
directory which prevented the new directory and files from being 
created.  Deleting that directory allowed the new directory and files to 
be created, but my daughter still gets no sound.

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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