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PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not)

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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.


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.


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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