Bug#752762: load-module module-alsa-sink freezes display

[Michael Meskes]

> > Jun 26 12:54:57 feivel pulseaudio[3128]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
> 
> Yes, this is expected, because that module needs the card details to

Wouldn't it be better than to have the line look like this?

#load-module module-alsa-sink <card-details>

> load. Is this message shown only once, or repeatedly? Does the log say
> afterwards:

Only once.

> [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
> [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.

Yes, it did.

> What DE/WM are you using? Were there sounds being played at the moment?

gnome-shell, everything up-to-date sid, no sounds being displayed.

> This error is weird, because the module load failure should just cause
> pulseaudio to exit. Perhaps something caused PA to respawn repeatedly?

Does it do that if it's, like, killed at the beginning of a session?

> > I tried using this module in an attempt to figure out why my sound doesn't work
> > correctly, or in other words, not at all when using the defaults.
> 
> For this, try using pavucontrol. There you can see if your card is
> actually being picked up.

I tried that before to no avail as there appeared to be something wrong with pulseaudio in general. Since then I found the problem, a misconfigured default sink in client.conf. I don't remember editing this file at all, but maybe that was an old config from back when.

Michael
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