[Bug 1684108] Re: Broken Audio infrastructure on Kubuntu 17.04

[Petr Sedlacek]

José, thanks for pointing out a workaround!

I haven't had time to confirm yet but I may have found the reason the
script /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 wasn't running correctly on my
system. When I tried executing it manually I got the error message
"Failed to open sound file." Looking at the script it contains the line

/usr/bin/pactl upload-sample /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/bell.ogg
bell.ogg > /dev/null

However, the file /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/bell.ogg wasn't
present on my system. Since the script is run with sh -e it will stop on
the first failure and therefore not load module-device-manager. I found
out that the sound file is part of the package ubuntu-sounds - once
installed, the script runs correctly.

José, could you please check if you have the package ubuntu-sounds
installed? The description says "Ubuntu's GNOME audio theme" so no
wonder it's not installed by default on Kubuntu. This therefore seems to
be a packaging bug in pulseaudio - the package should depend on ubuntu-
sounds.

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