Bug#712209: pulseaudio: getting no audio

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi Francesca,

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Francesca Ciceri <madamezou at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 5.0-2
> Followup-For: Bug #712209
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> Hi,
>
> I'm experiencing this as well, since yesterday.
> I was able to get audio only following the suggestion in Message 10, ie doing a
> 'alsactl init' as root. And the effect is lost on reboot/shutdown.
>
> root at malatesta:/home/madamezou# alsactl init
> Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "ATI R6xx HDMI"
> "HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100200" "0x17aa" "0x5104"
> Hardware is initialized using a generic method
>
> Here's the requested information, let me know if you need more.
>
> madamezou at malatesta:~$ pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -vvvv
> E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory
> (/run/user/1000/pulse): Permission denied

This doesn't seem right. What does ls -la /run/user/1000 say?

> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: Permission denied

That also doesn't look good, probably related to the above. Also, is
there another pulseaudio process running?

> I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed:
> Operation not permitted
> I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed:
> Operation not permitted
> D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
> D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: RealtimeKit worked.
> I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
> I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 5.0
> D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fstack-protector
> - --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -W
> - -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings
> - -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op
> - -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs
> - -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self
> - -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes
> - -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow
> - -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings
> - -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
> D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1
> SMP Debian 3.2.41-2
> D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 2 CPUs.
> I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
> D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
> D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
> D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
> D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
> D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts
> disabled.
> I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is b62e5895dc56af9045d836ba50ab17ca.
> I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 1.
> E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory
> (/run/user/1000/pulse): Permission denied
>
> madamezou at malatesta:~$ pactl list
> Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/1000/pulse): Permission
> denied
> Connection failure: Connection refused
> pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

Do you have these same errors after alsactl init? If not, what does
/run/user/1000 look like after that?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler