Bug 492757

Summary: pulseaudio not starting at boot time
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Clayton Bonser <clay>
Component: pulseaudioAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Clayton Bonser 2009-03-29 10:55:59 UTC
Created attachment 337160 [details]
output from issuing 'pulseaudio' command

Description of problem:
Pulseaudio seems to be not running after booting. There is no sound with everything turned up and not muted in mixer.
This might be a config error, but as it's the default condition after an install, it should be fixed, I suppose.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.9.14

How reproducible:
Always no sound, for all users and all applications that use sound.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Opening any sound file, or viewing web content with sound produces silence.

Expected results:
some sound from the speakers.

Additional info:
OK, issuing 'pulseaudio -k' returns Failed to kill daemon: no such process

issuing 'pulseaudio produces the message in the attachment. (too long to put in here.)
In relation to the attached message, I have added myself as a user to pulseaudio-rt This did not help.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2009-03-30 14:18:50 UTC
PA is not started on boot, but on GNOME session login.

Could you please provide a dump of ~/.xsession-errors?

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2009-03-30 14:21:25 UTC
Oh, and also everything from syslog regarding PA, please.

Comment 3 Clayton Bonser 2009-04-01 06:53:40 UTC
Umm, I'm feeling a bit sheepish here.
After filing the bug report, I also asked for assistance through a forum, and consensus was to remove pulseaudio.
I did this and still I had no sound.
As an experiment, I unplugged the surround system, and connected an old set of stereo speakers. Sound appeared.
On receiving your request I reinstalled PA, and now it seems happy. At least it's working.
I can add that the PA VU meter did not show any output when there was no sound. However, the error message logs have gone up to cyber-heaven. Sorry to have been a bother.

Clay.

P.S., as I can't supply any more info, unless you want to persist somehow, would you mark this one as closed please?

Comment 4 Lennart Poettering 2009-04-01 11:14:17 UTC
Closing then.