Bug#774810: pulseaudio-utils: pactl can no longer change volume: Assertion 'vol_spec' failed at utils/pactl.c:1462

[Felipe Sateler]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Jameson Graef Rollins
<jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio-utils
> Version: 5.99.2-2
> Severity: normal
>
> pactl is no longer able to change/set volumes:
>
> servo:~ 0$ pactl list short sinks
> 0       alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo      module-alsa-card.c      s16le 2ch 48000Hz       RUNNING
> servo:~ 0$ pactl -- set-sink-volume 0 +2dB
> Assertion 'vol_spec' failed at utils/pactl.c:1462, function parse_volume(). Aborting.
> Aborted
> servo:~ 134$

Can you set the volume using other units? That is, using percentages
or linear values?



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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler