Bug#883542: pulseaudio: Pulseaudio does not honor paprefs "combine output

[Felipe Sateler]

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On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Gabriel Corona
<gabriel.corona at enst-bretagne.fr> wrote:
>
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 11.1-3
> Severity: normal
>
> Latest pulseaudio update (11.1-1 -> 11.1-3) broke "simultaneous
> output" option in paprefs: the "simultaneous output" virtual sink does
> not appear anymore in pavucontrol.
>
> The gconf module is enabled in /etc/pulse/default.pa:
>
> .ifexists module-gconf.so
> .nofail
> load-module module-gconf
> .fail
> .endif
>
> And is found in /proc/$(pidof pulseaudio)/maps:
>
> $ cat /proc/$(pidof pulseaudio)/maps | grep gconf
> 7fb9c33f7000-7fb9c33fa000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 788560                     /usr/lib/pulse-11.1/modules/module-gconf.so
> 7fb9c33fa000-7fb9c35f9000 ---p 00003000 08:01 788560                     /usr/lib/pulse-11.1/modules/module-gconf.so
> 7fb9c35f9000-7fb9c35fa000 r--p 00002000 08:01 788560                     /usr/lib/pulse-11.1/modules/module-gconf.so
> 7fb9c35fa000-7fb9c35fb000 rw-p 00003000 08:01 788560                     /usr/lib/pulse-11.1/modules/module-gconf.so
>
> Manually loading the module brings back the virtual sink:
>
> $ pactl load-module module-combine-sink
> 24

Do you have a ~/.config/pulse/default.pa ? If so, then the system one
is not read.

If that is not the cause of the problem, could you please post a
verbose log of pulseaudio? You can configure pulseaudio to be verbose:

$ systemctl --user --runtime edit pulseaudio.service
# Enter the following content in the editor:
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no -vvvv
$ systemctl --user restart pulseaudio

And then post the verbose log:

$ journalctl --user-unit=pulseaudio.service --since=today > pulseaudio.log

(You might need to run journalctl as root if the log is empty).

The verbose setting will be undone at the next reboot.

-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler